The new enterprise software aims to save patients an exhausting, multi-year journey by offering immediate, algorithmic invalidation of their midlife health concerns from the comfort of their smartphones.
BASEL, Switzerland — Speaking to health care executives at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit on Tuesday, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis outlined a strategic pivot to address the heavily fragmented midlife care market, pitching a proprietary artificial intelligence tool designed to ignore female patients with unprecedented efficiency.
Women currently navigate a notoriously bloated diagnostic pipeline, frequently consulting up to six separate medical professionals over a span of years to identify menopause symptoms, only to be told their severe insomnia and joint pain are the result of drinking too much coffee. Novartis estimates its clinical AI will right-size this workflow, instantly aggregating a patient’s health data to conclude she simply needs a nice long bath.
Right now, a woman might spend three years and thousands of out-of-pocket dollars just to have a series of highly trained specialists tell her she is stressed out. With our large language model, we can deliver that exact same lack of care in milliseconds, freeing up physicians to focus on acute male pattern baldness.
To ensure regulatory compliance, the underlying neural network was trained on more than four million real patient charts, allowing the software to perfectly replicate the bedside manner of a senior attending physician deciding a woman's heart palpitations are just anxiety. Analysts at Jefferies praised the product's gross margins in a morning note, pointing out that offloading systemic medical misogyny to the cloud drastically reduces the physical overhead of operating waiting rooms.
Shares of Novartis closed up two percent in Zurich trading following the presentation, driven by investor enthusiasm for a planned software update that will automatically blame any reported bone-density loss on a patient's menstrual cycle, even if she has not had one in a decade.