Babylon Health
| Babylon Health | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | IL0011016669 |
| founding | 2013 |
| Seat | London |
| management | Ali Parsa |
| Branch | Healthcare |
| Website | www.babylonhealth.com |
Babylon Health is a health care company founded in London in 2013 that offers remote consultations with doctors and healthcare professionals via text and video messaging through its mobile application.
The Babylon app includes a symptom review chatbot that aims to provide relevant health information to patients based on the symptoms described. The "Babylon GP at hand" service offered in London and Birmingham as an alternative to the classic NHS family doctor model, which also offers video chats with medical specialists, counted over 40,000 registered patients in 2019.
The "Babylon Health App" is also available outside of Great Britain with limited functionality.
history
The company was founded in 2013 by Ali Parsa in London. Babylon Holdings Limited is a holding company that combines the Babylon Partners Limited technology arm and Babylon Health Services Ltd. owns.
Babylon Partners lost £ 12.9m in 2016 and £ 23.3m in 2017.
In 2014, Babylon Health Services Ltd. the first service of its kind to be registered with the Care Quality Commission, the regulator and inspector of health services in England.
In January 2016, Babylon received $ 25 million in funding, the highest ever fundraising for a digital health company in Europe. Investors include Hoxton Ventures, Kinnevik AB and the founders of Google DeepMind. In August 2019, a new financing round raised 550 million US dollars to further develop the artificial intelligence capabilities of Babylon Software. The equity value equates to a valuation of the company of over $ 2 billion. According to the company, around 4,000 medical consultations will be offered per day in 2019.
criticism
The reliability of the diagnostic system based on artificial intelligence is being called into question. Furthermore, a weakening of the health care in Great Britain is feared and unfair advertising methods are also criticized.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Technology Review: Why London's Doctors Are Against Better Health Services. In: Heise online . Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
- ^ Basler Zeitung, Tamedia Espace AG: The app as a doctor and lifesaver . ISSN 1420-3006 ( bazonline.ch [accessed on September 23, 2019]).
- ↑ Babylon, The UK Digital Doctor App, Scores $ 25M To Develop AI-Driven Health Advice. In: TechCrunch. Retrieved September 23, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Babylon Health confirms $ 550M raise at $ 2B + valuation to expand its AI-based health services. In: TechCrunch. Retrieved September 23, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ David Wong, Enrico Coiera, Hamish Fraser: Safety of patient-facing digital symptom checkers . In: The Lancet . tape 392 , no. 10161 , November 24, 2018, ISSN 0140-6736 , p. 2263–2264 , doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (18) 32819-8 , PMID 30413281 ( thelancet.com [accessed September 23, 2019]).
- ^ Matt Burgess: Major concerns are being raised about Babylon's impact on the NHS . In: Wired UK . April 26, 2019, ISSN 1357-0978 ( wired.co.uk [accessed September 23, 2019]).
- ↑ Naureen Bhatti: Seeing a GP on a smartphone sounds wonderful - but it's not . In: The Guardian . November 16, 2017, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed September 23, 2019]).