Health AI glossary.
The words behind health AI agents.
- Health loop
- A health loop is one job a health AI agent owns, written as five parts: a trigger, instructions, tools, an output and a record of every run.
- Health AI agent
- A health AI agent is software that owns one health job end to end: it starts on a trigger, follows steps, uses tools, hands red flags to a person and leaves a record.
- Health connector
- A health connector links a health AI agent to a system it can read from or act in, like a medical aid, a lab, a wearable, a store or WhatsApp.
- Agent OS
- An agent OS is the platform health AI agents run on: it owns the channels, models, memory, run record and uptime, so your team writes only the job.
- Ready-made agent
- A ready-made agent is a health AI agent template named by its job, like a protocol agent or a lab results agent, that a business starts from instead of a blank page.
- Trigger
- A trigger is what starts a run of a health AI agent: a member message, a store event, an API call from your system, or someone on your team.
- Guardrails
- Guardrails are the rules a health AI agent must keep: what it must never do, what it must hand to a person, and what it must say instead.
- Human handoff
- A human handoff is when a health AI agent passes a conversation to a person on your team, with the context attached, because a red flag fired or the question is outside its instructions.
- Red-flag check
- A red-flag check is a fixed list of warning signs a health AI agent runs on every message; when one fires, it gives the person their emergency number and tells your team.
- Run record
- A run record is the full history of one agent run: the trigger, each step and its result, every tool call, every log line and every error.
- Member memory
- Member memory is one record per person, shared by every health loop, so each journey starts with what the last one learned.
- Durable workflow
- A durable workflow is an agent run whose every step is checkpointed, so a retry never repeats work that succeeded and the run can wait days for a person without holding compute.
- Wellness scan
- A wellness scan is a 30-second face scan on a phone camera that reads heart rate, HRV, stress, breathing and a blood pressure estimate, as wellness readings, not clinical results.