About Ask Meddy
Built on science.
Designed for real people.
Ask Meddy exists because getting a real answer to a health question shouldn't require a three-week wait, a $300 copay, or a Google rabbit hole. We built something better.
Our mission
Healthcare shouldn't be a privilege of access.
Too many people make health decisions based on incomplete information — not because they don't care, but because the system makes it hard to get a real answer. Appointments are scarce. Copays are high. And googling your symptoms leads to anxiety, not clarity.
Ask Meddy changes that. We give anyone with a health question access to the same quality of evidence and physician expertise that used to require connections, money, or luck.
“Every answer should be grounded in real science — and every patient deserves to speak with someone who actually understands their situation.”
— The Ask Meddy team
126M
Americans lack adequate access to primary care
26 days
Average wait for a new patient appointment
$310
Average out-of-pocket cost per specialist visit
8 min
Average time to reach a physician on Ask Meddy
Why we built it
The problems we set out to solve.
Three things consistently get in the way of people getting the health answers they need.
Access takes too long
The average wait for a doctor's appointment is 26 days. Health questions don't wait 26 days. Ask Meddy connects you with a physician in minutes — not weeks.
The internet gives bad answers
Googling symptoms leads to anxiety and misinformation. Ask Meddy searches 80M+ peer-reviewed papers instead — giving you evidence-backed answers, not WebMD worst-case scenarios.
Context gets lost between visits
Doctors see snapshots. They don't see the full picture of your daily habits, sleep, nutrition, and patterns. Ask Meddy builds that context before you ever speak to a physician.
The evidence foundation
Grounded in 80 million papers.
Ask Meddy isn't a general AI that generates plausible-sounding health information. Every response is grounded in peer-reviewed academic literature retrieved in real time from the world's two largest medical research databases.
Every claim can be traced back to a published, citable source. No hallucinations. No outdated information. No guesswork.
PubMed
National Library of Medicine · NIH
35M+
Peer-reviewed biomedical research papers indexed
Semantic Scholar
Allen Institute for AI · Academic research
200M+
Academic papers across medicine, biology & health sciences
How our RAG system works
You ask
Plain language question or symptom
Query built
Clinical context structured into a precise search
Papers retrieved
Most relevant research pulled from 80M+ papers
Cited response
Answer generated with linked sources to verify
Privacy & compliance
Your health data is yours. Always.
We handle your most sensitive information with the highest standard of protection.
HIPAA compliant infrastructure
Every part of our platform — storage, transmission, and processing — meets HIPAA requirements. Your health information is treated as protected health information at every step.
End-to-end encryption
All data in transit and at rest is encrypted. Your conversation with Meddy and your physician is private by design — not an afterthought.
Your data is never sold
We do not sell, share, or monetise your health information. Period. Your data is used only to power your care experience — nothing else.
HIPAA compliant
Protected health information standard
The physicians
Real doctors. Board certified.
Every physician on Ask Meddy is board-certified, licensed, and trained to work with the full clinical context Meddy provides.
Dr. Sarah Mitchell, MD
Internal Medicine
Board Certified · 12 years experience
Dr. Marcus Taylor, MD
Family Medicine
Board Certified · 9 years experience
Dr. Jamie Park, MD
Endocrinology
Board Certified · 15 years experience
Part of something bigger
Ask Meddy is the start. Meddy Health is the journey.
Ask Meddy is your entry point — a free, instant way to get answers and connect with a physician. For patients who want to go deeper, Meddy Health offers continuous tracking, biomarker monitoring, lab ordering, and ongoing physician care — all in one connected platform.
Learn about Meddy HealthAsk Meddy — Get answers, connect with a physician today. Free.
Meddy Health Core — Track nutrition, workouts, sleep, and health patterns. Free.
Meddy Health+ — Physician care, labs, biomarker tracking, personalised adjustments. $169/mo.
Your health question
deserves a real answer.
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