InfoQ September 21, 2019
Anna Zawilska, Lead User Researcher at Babylon Health, recently presented, at Webexpo 2019 in Prague, the lessons learnt from their experience delivering remote healthcare through a combination of technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Babylon Health came to adjust three key assumptions underpinning product development.
Anna Zawilska starts with mentioning a study from the World Healthcare Organization, according to which at least 50% of the world’s population cannot obtain essential health services. In that context, combining the ubiquity of mobile devices with the diagnosis power of Artificial Intelligence has the potential to broaden the access of healthcare services. Babylon’s engineers, doctors, and scientists developed an AI system that can receive data about the symptoms someone is suffering from, compare the information...