April 25, 2017
babylon puts a doctor in the machine
babylon is announcing an investment of £50m to build what it claims will be the world's most advanced artificial intelligence healthcare platform. Its chief executive Ali Parsa says it will put expert health advice in the hands of smartphone users around the world.
April 25, 2017
babylon raises £50m to perfect its AI doctor
British tech firm babylon has raised $60m (£46.82m) in its mission to create the perfect AI doctor. Its app, which is used by 800,000 people, allows patients to text symptoms to artificial intelligence software and receive advice.
April 25, 2017
Investors backed an AI startup that puts a doctor on your smartphone with $60 million
UK artificial intelligence (AI) startup babylon has raised $60 million (£47 million) for its smartphone app which aims to put a doctor in your pocket.
April 25, 2017
babylon raises $60m to build AI doctor to diagnose illnesses
UK tech group says new funding will help its software predict future health problems.
April 25, 2017
London HealthTech startup Babylon raises additional $60m
HealthTech startup babylon has raised $60m in funding, adding to the $25m the firm raised in 2016. A statement from the London-based company said it plans to use the funds to “build the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) platform in healthcare”.
April 25, 2017
Babylon Health raises further $60M to continue building out AI doctor app
babylon, the U.K. startup that offers a digital healthcare app using a mixture of artificial intelligence (AI) and video and text consultations with doctors and specialists, has raised $60 million in new funding.
27th March, 2017
AI Chatbots Are Shaking Up the Workforce in Some Unexpected Ways
This January, the United Kingdom's National Health Service launched a trial with Babylon Health, a startup developing an AI chatbot. For six months, Babylon will offer a triage service on its app as an alternative to dialing the U.K.'s 24 hour non-emergency telephone number.
March 22, 2017
25 interesting European AI start-ups to watch in 2017
babylon is a digital doctor app that enables GP video calling and AI diagnoses, revolutionising the world of healthcare.
21st March, 2017
babylon’s accessible health mission
Presenter Shivvy Jervis meets Dr Sophy Jessica Welch of babylon – the platform now putting digital health into the hands of more than 600,000 people worldwide.
17th March, 2017
A GP Behind The App
Dr Hannah Allen of babylon health, explains what it is like to work behind the app.
11th March, 2017
30 incredible London tech start-ups to keep an eye on
London is unquestionably the epicentre of start-up activity in Europe. Check out these 30 start-ups to watch out for in 2017 and 2018. babylon is a digital doctor app that enables GP video calling and AI diagnoses, revolutionising the world of healthcare.
10th March, 2017
New Startup Claims Its AI-Powered Chatbot Can Diagnose Illness Better Than Any Doctor
U.K.-based health startup babylon is so confident that its chatbot-based app will be able to pinpoint exactly what’s wrong with you that in January, it partnered with the NHS in a pilot program that allows patients to be diagnosed via smartphone.
8th March, 2017
Forget your GP, robots will 'soon be able to diagnose more accurately than almost any doctor'
Dr Parsa said it was not a question of robots replacing medics – but of providing doctors with the best support. “If you think of the game of chess – no person can beat the machine – but the best games come when chess players are assisted by machine,” he said. “We would not accurately forecast the weather without a computer – we need to be giving this support to our doctors.”
7th March, 2017
NHS digital lead reinforces need for collaboration with tech suppliers
Dr Indra Joshi, NHS England’s Clinical Lead for Digital Urgent and Emergency Care, has encouraged suppliers to come forward and engage in conversations with the NHS to bring technology into ‘central solutions’.
“Now we’ve got to get a bit smarter, we know we don’t have enough doctors, we know we don’t have enough nurses and we know we don’t have enough people on the ground so here comes tech.”
2nd March, 2017
Intelligent robots march into everyday life
Artificial intelligence has worked mostly in the background but now it is beginning to move centre stage. Babylon Health offers virtual medical check-ups: as of last May it has been offering virtual triage via smartphone, connecting patients directly with doctors when needed.
27th February, 2017
AI healthcare app babylon gives you access to personalised medical advice and services
At the recent DLD Conference in Munich we chatted with Ali Parsa, an engineer and healthcare entrepreneur from London. In 2013, he founded the healthcare company babylon with the goal to personalise health service and make it universally available. Babylon aims to combine the ever growing computing power of machines with the best medical expertise of humans.
23rd February, 2017
Here are 50 Companies Leading the AI Revolution
A look at the 50 largest startups on the list, ranked by total funds raised, shows that investment in AI is surging worldwide. babylon is listed as one of four global AI healthcare startup companies.
23rd February, 2017
The Top 5 Unicorns To Watch Out For In 2017
Technology enabled healthcare solutions have been around for a while, but perhaps people are now more willing than ever to give them a go. Companies like Babylon Health promise to connect you with a doctor in minutes. With amazing AI and bot technology on the rise, people will be able to seek immediate healthcare advice at the touch of a button.
6th February, 2017
The AI doctor will see you now: How Babylon is getting people to trust a chatbot
Convincing people to let artificial intelligence diagnose them is no mean feat and yet healthcare app Babylon believes it can be done if its marketing stresses the technology won’t replace doctors but rather amplify their proficiency.
26th January, 2017
babylon: bringing digital health to the world
babylon was Parsa's next brainchild and was created to solve the problem of healthcare inaccessibility. It's a service that enables users to have consultations with a GP, specialist or therapist via phone or video call, thus removing the need to physically travel to a surgery.
How your phone is becoming your doctor
How your phone is becoming your doctor
babylon's team of 100 artificial intelligence researchers is not merely building a lexicon of diseases — it is trying to create the world’s largest repository of medical knowledge, a superhuman doctor who can triage, diagnose and even treat you via your phone.
11th January, 2017
AI 100: The Artificial Intelligence Startups Redefining Industries
CB Insights unveiled the AI 100—a list of 100 of the most promising private companies applying artificial intelligence algorithms across industries, from healthcare to auto to fintech—at the Innovation Summit today.
9th January, 2017
Reform's Andrew Haldenby on delivering medical care
Andrew Haldenby, a director of the centre-right Reform thinktank that focuses on public services, looks at how babylon, a web app and video calling could help deliver medical care.
5th January, 2017
NHS to trial chatbot that gives medical advice
The NHS is developing the app with babylon, one of the new breed of paid, doctor on-demand services. It's actually being adapted from Babylon's existing mobile app, which features a chatbot-like symptom questionnaire users interact with before being connected with a general practitioner (GP) via video call.
5th January, 2017
The NHS is trialling an AI chatbot to answer your medical questions
The trial, which will run for six months, will allow people to enter their symptoms into the app and receive responses based on what they have entered. When the app is looking for answers to the questions it will consult a large database of symptoms and illnesses.
4th January, 2017
babylon partners with UK’s NHS to replace telephone helpline with AI-powered chatbot
Instead of calling a phone number and talking to one of NHS 111’s trained operators, who aren’t necessarily medically qualified but are overseen by physicians and nurses, patients will be able to chat to babylon’s AI-powered chatbot that allows you to check symptoms instantly, and get what the startup claims is the most appropriate advice on the course of action to be taken.
4th January, 2017
NHS to trial artificial intelligence app in place of 111 helpline
Starting at the end of January, for the next six months more than 1.2m residents of north central London, including the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Enfield and Barnet, will have access to an app that will perform triage for urgent but non-life-threatening conditions.
2nd January, 2017
NHS 'needs telecoms-style revolution'
Ali Parsa, founder of health app babylon and the former boss of private hospital operator Circle , said the UK has "as good a chance as any other country" in becoming a leader in global healthcare - but says the sector must support growing digital health firms in order to develop a credible export.
18th December, 2016
Hans Kinnevik-bolag vill revolutionera vården med AI
Snart kan robotar göra en läkares jobb, menar den brittiska entreprenören Ali Parsa. Med Kinnevik i ryggen vill han revolutionera läkarvården globalt, med hjälp av artificiell intelligens.
November 29, 2016
babylon is racing against Google & Amazon to build an AI doctor
It’s the holy grail of medicine. A machine that can diagnose and treat patients, at a fraction of the cost of a human doctor. “We’re getting into a territory where our competition is the likes of Google, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple, even Facebook,” Parsa told The Memo.
November 10, 2016
Vanguard hospital to trial private GP app provider
Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust has signed a deal with babylon for its staff to get free access to the company’s app under an agreement that could pave the way for the service to be offered to NHS patients.
October 22, 2016
‘Sending a rocket to Mars is difficult. We just want to put GPs on an app’
"I look like Danny DeVito, but I used to be tall and blond,” Ali Parsa jokes as he gives a guided tour around his colourful offices in London’s South Kensington. The 51-year-old Iranian-born businessman is the founder of babylon Healthcare, a start-up that is pioneering the way we access medical care.
October 18, 2016
Technology: transforming healthcare?
Another solution to tackling infection would be to keep people out of hospitals - or the doctor’s surgery - altogether. A new App called babylon Health claims it can bring a medical diagnosis to a user’s pocket. Founder and CEO Ali Parsa took Chris Smith through the fine print...
October 14, 2016
Can Smartphone Apps Really Replace GP Appointments?
babylon, another market leader, saw recent heavy investment from the Innocent Drinks founders and is about to put £19 million into its artificial intelligence symptom-checker.
October 14, 2016
Meet Babylon, A Personal Doctor In Your Pocket
If you need proof that the future of healthcare has arrived then look no further than Babylon, a medical app that allows people to be treated by a hybrid of artificial intelligence and humans. Created by Iranian entrepreneur Ali Parsa in 2014, Babylon checks billions of variations of symptoms through a refined AI technology.
October 2, 2016
The doctor will see you now… on your smartphone
Where babylon seems to be taking the lead – and, Parsa believes, reducing the crisis of the global shortfall of doctors – is with its use of artificial intelligence. When I tried its “check a symptom” feature for the lump on my neck, I was actually being quizzed by what they consider the world’s first accurate AI triage service.
Could This App Replace Your Doctor?
Ali Parsa’s ambitions are about as big as they come: he wants to “give affordable health care services to every human being on Earth.” His invention, babylon, is a cellphone-based health care platform that monitors users’ health and connects them with doctors. It also incorporates health data monitoring, from pulse and blood pressure to liver function, using a combination of in-phone features and at-home test kits.
September 29, 2016
Accident and emergency
GP practices are also belatedly embracing technology. Only 2% of people use the internet to contact their doctor. But two practices in Essex, for example, are trialling Babylon, an app that uses machine learning to diagnose symptoms.
September 13, 2016
Would You Invest In A Digital Doctor?
So far, we are only beginning to see AI, robotics and Care Anywhere as a means of accessing healthcare. As each of these three areas develop, and more importantly as each combines and integrates, as in the case of Babylon Health, the potential for change and the impact it will have on the role of clinicians is staggering.
August 12, 2016
babylon's CEO on digital health’s greatest growth barrier
“Healthcare is 10% of the UK’s GDP, and 16% of the US’, and those hundreds of billions of dollars of vested interest, everybody who gets a paycheck, now has an interest in the existing system, as well as bettering the future system."
August 4, 2016
How to Move to Another Country When You Have a Mental Illness
babylon, which costs £39 per session, allows access to English-speaking therapists via a website or downloadable app. "Giving people access to digital therapy addresses several of the key barriers many face when trying to access treatment," said Rebecca Minton, therapy lead at the service. Patients can undertake consultations over the phone or online, removing the need for location-bound services.
10 jobs that A.I. and chatbots Will Take Over
Babylon is the robot that has got the British National Health Service testing it currently as it seeks to transform healthcare as we know it and looks to replace traditional doctors in various situations.
March 10, 2017
New Startup Claims Its AI-Powered Chatbot Can Diagnose Illness Better Than Any Doctor
U.K.-based health startup Babylon Health is so confident that its chatbot-based app will be able to pinpoint exactly what’s wrong with you that in January, it partnered with the NHS in a pilot program that allows patients to be diagnosed via smartphone.