Physician aims to link artificial intelligence with medical practices

As a former women’s health medical practitioner, Dr. Michael Dent is at his core a physician on a mission to save lives. But rather than treating patients individually, he’s out to save them on a global scale.

That was his goal when he founded Fort Myers-based NeoGenomics in 2002: helping to grow the cancer diagnostics lab company from a $300,000 capital investment into publicly held company with $277 million in revenue in 2018. He says his newest venture, Bonita Springs-based HealthLynked, has even greater potential.

HealthLynked is first and foremost a technology company with an emphasis on health care by linking patients with providers on multiple levels through a cloud-based software platform, Dent, 55, says. 

The company's system is capable of merging patients’ health records from a variety of sources into a comprehensive, portable, accurate health record instantly accessible by participating doctors who sign on to have the HealthLynked hub placed in their offices. Free to patient members, the service not only makes continually updated records accessible by physicians but also tracks every aspect of their patients’ visit.

And soon, an under-development artificial intelligence component will even provide diagnostic information based on factors including patient history, geography, environmental exposures and symptoms, providing the patient voluntarily maintains the profile.

The mission? Manage care, head off health issues before they present and create a connection beneficial to both patients and their providers. “We're not looking to change the dynamic of the doctor-patient interaction; we're looking to augment it,” says Dent, HealthLynked Chairman and CEO. “We’re looking to supplement, not replace.”

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