Ginkgo Health to launch the world’s first AI-powered exercise prescription app

Outside a surgery room, Maggie Deng watched the doors swing open as patients connected to wires were wheeled out on carts, while a doctor told her that prevention was too late for many of their conditions. There weren’t sufficient facilities or platforms to help them take proactive steps, the physician highlighted, hoping that Deng would consider exploring a solution. At the time, Deng was touring hospitals as a board member and shareholder for stroke rehabilitation equipment company NextStep Robotics.

“They said prescription exercise can really change people's lives while they're still healthy in a way that [...] reverses the risks [of a huge amount of diseases and conditions],” Deng recounts to the Vancouver Tech Journal. “I fully believe this is the ultimate way to change our world because medical care costs are mostly generated by people aged 45 and over.”