San Antonio man creates app that utilizes AI to help make pregnancy safer [Video]

SAN ANTONIO – A new app aims to make pregnancy safer by using artificial intelligence to identify potential risks, through the use of machine learning techniques.

Retired Army veteran Dave Esra recently launched a new app called BobiHealth.

“The idea is to improve maternal health outcomes, with predictive analytics,” Dave Esra, the founder and CEO of Bobihealth said. “We are collecting temperature, blood pressure, oxygen, and pulse.”

Maternal health is a topic that resonates deeply with Esra.

“My wife also had a complicated pregnancy, so I had a personal, passion behind it,” Esra said.

Esra pursued AI studies at MIT and continued his postgraduate education at the University of Texas in Austin.

“I did a postgrad course at UT Austin, and it was there that I was challenged with solve a problem with artificial intelligence. To me, it was obvious,” Esra said.

The World Health Organization reports that in 2020 almost 800 women diedfrom preventable causes related to pregnancy …