Israeli AI predicts baby allergies before they appear

An Israeli digital health company using artificial intelligence to predict and prevent food allergies in infants is expanding its operations in Australia.

MyOr, founded in Israel and now operating subsidiaries in Australia and the United States, has built a prediction model trained on data from one million children.

The platform identifies the roughly 10 per cent of infants at highest risk of developing food allergies before any symptoms appear, then refers them for dietitian-led intervention that the company says can cut the rate of allergy development by 80 per cent.

“We have a database of million kids,” MyOr Board Chair Ariel Katz told The AJN.

“Based on the database, we’ve been able, using AI technologies, to develop a prediction model that we know to predict precisely who has the risk to develop food allergies.”