Ginkgo Health Inc., a pioneering technology startup aiming to reduce the global healthcare burden, is set to launch Ginkgo Active—an innovative artificial intelligence-powered application that delivers personalized exercise prescriptions for the prevention and management of chronic conditions and injuries. With the potential to impact billions worldwide, Ginkgo Active will be available to the public on December 8, 2024.
In the past 25 years, more than 100,000 research studies have shown that exercise is the best medicine in the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) concluded in the 2019 Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior that: Regular physical activity is a known protective factor for the prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, breast and colon cancer.
Despite this, there is no solution that consolidates existing health research to help the general population. An exercise prescription should consider hundreds of health rules including exercise type, intensity, fitness level, and risk. The computation is beyond human capacity.
Maggie Deng, the founder of Ginkgo Health, was inspired to create Ginkgo Active as a board member of NextStep Robotics – a tech company committed to developing rehabilitation equipment for stroke patients. During her work in NextStep, neurologists and physiotherapists repeatedly pointed out that prevention can be achieved by task oriented exercise plans, but it must be started before patients have serious physical impairments.
