Deepti
Bahel
Senior Data Engineer at Gifthealth
"MediMate: An AI Health Companion Built from Lived Experience, Not a Pitch Deck"
"MediMate: An AI Health Companion Built from Lived Experience, Not a Pitch Deck"
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Session: MediMate: An AI Health Companion Built from Lived Experience, Not a Pitch Deck
MediMate is a mobile-first, AI-powered companion built to support people like me — and the caregivers who walk alongside them.After my kidney transplant, I realized how fragile real-world medication adherence, emotional health tracking, and caregiver communication actually are. Most tools either feel clinical, fragmented, or overwhelming. Patients and caregivers are left juggling pill schedules, lab reports, side effects, mood swings, and missed-dose anxiety with no single place to make sense of it all.
MediMate is raw, early, and scrappy — but it’s already working.
In this startup demo, I’ll show how MediMate uses:
• Photo-based medication logging with Vision AI for quick pill recognition
• An AI chat assistant that explains labs, side effects, and medications in plain English
• Mood check-ins using facial cues to track emotional trends
• A vitals and medication tracker with alerts and missed-dose nudges
• Dual caregiver-patient views so families stay in sync
• Mini learning hubs for diet, meds, and discharge care
• Escalation alerts to caregivers for missed doses or health concerns
This isn’t a polished healthcare platform.
It’s a living product built from lived experience.
I’ll share what’s working, what’s broken, and what it actually takes to build human-centered AI in healthcare — not from a pitch deck, but from the front lines of recovery and caregiving.
Key Takeaways
- How to build human-centered AI tools for healthcare using lived experience.
- How Vision AI and conversational AI can simplify medication tracking and lab interpretation.
- Why caregiver-patient synchronization is critical for real-world health outcomes.
- How early-stage health tech products evolve from scrappy prototypes into real support systems.
- What it actually takes to make AI feel supportive, not overwhelming, in healthcare.
Bio
Deepti Bahel is a Senior Data Engineer, AI product builder, and kidney transplant recipient who builds technology at the intersection of healthcare, data, and lived experience.She has 12+ years of experience across companies like Google, Intuit, Wayfair, and Accenture, and now focuses on building human-centered AI tools for patients and caregivers.
Deepti is the creator of MediMate, a mobile-first AI health companion that helps patients track medications, understand labs, monitor mood, and stay connected with caregivers.
She is also a Women in Big Data volunteer leader, hackathon winner, conference speaker, and product-oriented technologist passionate about making healthcare technology feel human, not bureaucratic.
