Oura built a women's health AI using clinical research - how to try it

Source: ZDNet

ZDNET’s key takeaways

• Oura is launching a custom LLM designed for women’s health.
• Users can test it out in the app through Oura Labs.
• The model will answer questions sourced from clinician‑vetted research.

Oura is rolling out a custom women’s health model within its personal health chatbot, Oura Advisor, the smart‑ring company announced on Tuesday. It’s an experimental feature through Oura Labs, Oura’s testing ground for new features, that will not only take a woman’s biometric data into account when answering her query, but will also source its information from research vetted by the company’s board of clinicians.

The custom women’s health model is Oura’s first proprietary LLM, trained on clinical sources and research guidelines approved by the company’s board of certified clinicians and women’s health experts. The experimental launch comes nearly a year after Oura Advisor was given a permanent spot on the Oura app, following a trial run through Oura Labs.

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When a user asks Oura Advisor about their menstrual cycle or pregnancy stage, the custom model will pop up with an answer. Questions like “How can I improve my sleep during my third trimester of pregnancy?” or “Why has my cycle become irregular?” or “How does my menstrual cycle influence stress and activity?” will trigger the women’s health model to respond. This LLM offers personalized, evidence‑based technology to help members understand their health.

“By having a more custom model on the back end, our advisory experience becomes that much more personalized and tailored to our female members,” said Dr. Tanvi Jayaraman, one of the physicians who helped build the model.

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Oura built the women’s health model to be supportive, clinically sound, and personalized—but not a substitute for a doctor. The company advises against using the chatbot for diagnosis or treatment; instead, it should serve as a springboard for discovering wellness data patterns that can be discussed with a professional when needed.

Members who use the custom LLM will help shape its responses by providing feedback before a possible wider launch. Because the feature is only available through Oura Labs, members must opt in to use it. After the model generates a response, members can also give feedback on their preferred response types.

By launching this feature in Oura Labs, Oura co‑creates the experience its members want by soliciting feedback and completing rigorous evaluation of quality, safety, and member satisfaction.

How to try it

You can find Oura Labs in the Oura app by opening the drop‑down menu in the upper‑left corner. After opting in to try new features, you can begin using the custom women’s health model or explore Oura’s blood‑pressure profile study—two of the experimental features currently available in Oura Labs.

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Oura hasn’t confirmed whether the custom women’s health LLM will launch permanently for all members. For those already opted into Oura Labs, the new feature should appear in the app in the coming days.