MedCity News November 18, 2020
K Health, a startup building a symptom checker that allows users to compare their symptoms to similar patient cases, struck a partnership with Mayo Clinic’s Data Analytics Platform. It also raised another $42 million in funding as it builds out a telehealth platform.
In a sea of symptom checkers, startup K Health takes a slightly different approach. In addition to asking questions to try to narrow down a user’s symptoms, it also compares their results to similar patient cases.
For example, it could compare people who went to the doctor for a headache with a similar medical history, who were ultimately diagnosed with a migraine, co-founder and chief product officer Ran Shaul explained in an interview.
“You are narrowing down...