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Infermedica

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Infermedica
InfermedicaCo's logo
Private
ISIN🆔
IndustrySoftware
Founded 📆Wrocław, Poland 2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Founder 👔
Headquarters 🏙️, ,
Area served 🗺️
worldwide
Key people
  • Piotr Orzechowski (CEO)
Products 📟 Symptom Checker, Call Center Triage platform, Infermedica API
Services
Members
Number of employees
70
🌐 Websitewww.infermedica.com
📇 Address
📞 telephone

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]

  1. "Company overview". Crunch Base.
  2. Liu, John (2018-06-12). "Healthcare skill is comparatively easy to access on the Cortana platform: Infermedica". Asmag.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  3. Infermedica joins our portfolio InnovationNest, Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  4. Venture Inc - Portfolio Venture Inc, Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  5. Infermedica Profile Crunchbase, Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  6. Lovett, Laura (2018-03-22). "Healthcare accelerator Dreamit announces spring cohort". MobiHealthNews. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  7. Lovett, Laura (2019-06-06). "Symptom checker Infermedica scores $3.65M, continues move into US market". Mobi Health News.
  8. Hacking Healthcare: Modernizing Healthcare IT Medium, Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  9. McMillan, Candice (2015-05-21). "Infermedica API Provides Healthcare Diagnostic Insights". ProgrammableWeb. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Dreamit Startup Infermedica Wins HIMSS Award DreamIt Ventures, Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  13. Torres, Roberto (2018-06-05). "At Dreamit's HealthTech Demo Day, a penchant for machine learning and AI". technical.ly]. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  14. 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.
  15. Yates-Roberts, Elly (2020-03-09). "New Microsoft tech to improve healthcare experience for all". Technology Record]. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  16. Hannon, Patricia (2018-03-14). "Researchers say use of artificial intelligence in medicine raises ethical questions". Stanford Medicine News Center.
  17. Weintraub, Arlene (2018-03-16). "Artificial Intelligence Is Infiltrating Medicine -- But Is It Ethical?". Forbes.
  18. Bartoletti, Ivana (2018-07-26). "Algorithms may outperform doctors, but they're no healthcare panacea". The Guardian.


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