The Israeli company behind a medical chatbot that provides patients with specific clinical ratings has raised $8 million. This funding will be used to continue adding new subspecialties beyond primary care and to expand efforts to provide clinical assessments to telemedicine organizations.
cahun medical is a digital health startup that makes decisions based on over 30 million evidence-based medical insights. That chatbot uses the same reasoning as a trained provider to ask all the right questions and calculate the next best question.
Clinical reasoning is one of the most important parts of a health care provider’s job, the process of connecting a patient’s clinical presentation (including symptoms and tests) with the dots leading up to a diagnosis.
Chatbot questions are tailored to each patient, incorporating all relevant information and excluding rare illnesses and emergencies. This process takes him 3-5 minutes and provides the doctor with a clinical summary with recommendations for further evaluation.
The tool “speaks” to physicians in their own language, provides complete transparency of their insights, and helps combat major healthcare challenges such as physician burnout, fatigue and lack of healthcare providers. It has great potential.
Eitan Ron, Kahun co-founder and CEO, said:
“The technology behind our AI solutions follows the same building blocks that trained doctors rely on.
“Using peer-reviewed texts and authoritative academic literature from all areas of medicine, we build digital medical advisors trained to think like physicians, integrating trusted tools into their workflows to help physicians face It has lightened the burden.”
Current AI tools for healthcare providers use a combination of big data engines built on patient records and expert knowledge rather than evidence-based medical literature. These tools are not trained to perform real clinical reasoning, the insights they provide are not traceable, and there are no references to medical literature.
Kahun was founded in 2018 and is based in Gibatime, Israel. The funding round was led by UK VC LocalGlobe, with participation from his EIC fund in the EU and his The Founders Kitchen fund by Waze co-founder Uri Levine.
