This bit of news popped up last week.Babylon Health raises £50m for AI diagnosis toolLaura Stevens27 April 2017Digital healthcare company, Babylon Health, have raised about £50 million to further develop its artificial intelligence clinical diagnosis capabilities.Babylon says the new AI tool will help clinicians by providing them with a diagnosis of more routine conditions. Planned capabilities include using natural language processing to take notes in patient consultations.Speaking to Digital Health News, Ali Parsa, founder and chief executive of Babylon, claimed the new diagnosis tool could potentially cut the cost of a consultation by 80%.He said the latest £50m raised by Babylon that the money will go towards “engineering and mass producing the technology” for a new AI tool that will help clinicians by providing diagnosis of more routine conditions.The new AI diagnosis tool will work in conjunction with Babylon’s existing simpler clinical triage app, symptom checker,...
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