Infermedica
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Software |
| Founded 📆 | Wrocław, Poland 2012 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | worldwide |
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| Products 📟 | Symptom Checker, Call Center Triage platform, Infermedica API |
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Number of employees | 70 |
| 🌐 Website | www |
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Infermedica is a Poland-based healthcare IT company, that develops medical software based on artificial intelligence technologies. It creates decision support systems for triage and preliminary medical diagnosis.[1][2]
The company was initially supported by the European private and institutional investors such as RTAventures, InnovationNest[3] and Venture Inc[4][5] and is a part of a startup healthcare accelerator DreamIT Health based in Philadelphia.[6] In 2019 Infermedica raised $3.65 million during late-seed round funding, backed by Karma Ventures, DreamIt Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners and Müller Medien.[7]
Solution[edit]
The company core solution is a symptom checker platform for patients that uses AI to perform a preliminary diagnostic interview. The AI suggests specific actions to take, such as visiting or calling a doctor, self-care treatment, or going to an emergency department.
Infermedica has three SaaS solutions:
- Symptom Checker - a platform for symptom checking and clinical decision support,
- Call Center Triage platform - cloud-based software to support operators in making triage recommendations,
- Infermedica API[8] - open developer portal that allows integrating the diagnostic engine into 3rd party software.[9]
Technology[edit]
Company develops online diagnostic platform.[10] Infermedica’s technology is supported by two primary components: the inference engine and the medical knowledge base. The system uses a reasoning engine based on multiple Bayesian networks.[11] The medical knowledge base is developed and curated by the team of doctors and data extraction algorithms.
Implementations[edit]
Infermedica has been implemented commercially by companies, such as Allianz, Dovera,[12] Everyday Health, Médis, or Taipei Medical University Hospital.[13]
Infermedica is used as one of the providers for Microsoft Healthcare Bot, a platform to create virtual health assistants, that offers built-in healthcare-specific use cases and a triage engine to check symptoms in 17 languages.[14] [15]
Controversies[edit]
There are several concerns raised against using artificial intelligence tools (the same as Infermedica's) in healthcare. Frequently raised issues include the risk of biased data being reflected in the algorithms,[16] ethical issues around using patient data,[17] or the lack of empathy and sensitivity towards the patient.[18]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Company overview". Crunch Base.
- ↑ Liu, John (2018-06-12). "Healthcare skill is comparatively easy to access on the Cortana platform: Infermedica". Asmag.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ↑ Infermedica joins our portfolio InnovationNest, Retrieved 2018-11-17.
- ↑ Venture Inc - Portfolio Venture Inc, Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ↑ Infermedica Profile Crunchbase, Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ↑ Lovett, Laura (2018-03-22). "Healthcare accelerator Dreamit announces spring cohort". MobiHealthNews. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ↑ Lovett, Laura (2019-06-06). "Symptom checker Infermedica scores $3.65M, continues move into US market". Mobi Health News.
- ↑ Hacking Healthcare: Modernizing Healthcare IT Medium, Retrieved 2018-11-18.
- ↑ McMillan, Candice (2015-05-21). "Infermedica API Provides Healthcare Diagnostic Insights". ProgrammableWeb. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ↑ Zagorecki A., Orzechowski P., Hołownia K. (2013) Online Diagnostic System Based on Bayesian Networks. In: Peek N., Marín Morales R., Peleg M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Online ISBN 978-3-642-38326-7
- ↑ Peek, Niels; Marín Morales, Roque Luis; Peleg, Mor (December 6, 2013). Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013, Murcia, Spain, May 29 -- June 1, 2013, Proceedings. Murcia: Springer. p. 145. ISBN 9783642383267. Search this book on
- ↑ Dreamit Startup Infermedica Wins HIMSS Award DreamIt Ventures, Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ↑ Torres, Roberto (2018-06-05). "At Dreamit's HealthTech Demo Day, a penchant for machine learning and AI". technical.ly]. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ↑ Moore, Greg (2020-03-06). "Microsoft for Healthcare: Empowering our customers and partners to provide better experiences, insights and care". Microsoft. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ↑ Yates-Roberts, Elly (2020-03-09). "New Microsoft tech to improve healthcare experience for all". Technology Record]. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ↑ Hannon, Patricia (2018-03-14). "Researchers say use of artificial intelligence in medicine raises ethical questions". Stanford Medicine News Center.
- ↑ Weintraub, Arlene (2018-03-16). "Artificial Intelligence Is Infiltrating Medicine -- But Is It Ethical?". Forbes.
- ↑ Bartoletti, Ivana (2018-07-26). "Algorithms may outperform doctors, but they're no healthcare panacea". The Guardian.
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