Intermountain Healthcare joined forces with Israeli startup Zebra Medical Vision to develop imaging algorithms that can improve patient care.
Zebra sells an engine for physicians and healthcare providers to analyze imaging records. The company said its platform has already yielded insights that have been validated using hundreds of thousands of cases in the fields of bone health, cardiovascular analysis, liver and lung indications.
Intermountain said that Zebra’s Analytics Engine will enable it to perform large-scale analytics against imaging data for the first time and essentially apply machine learning algorithms to those data sets.
Under terms of the deal, Intermountain also led a $!2 million Series B round of funding, which Zebra CEO Elad Benjamin wrote in a blog the company will use to populate its Analytics Engine with “hundreds of algorithmic insights needed in order to automatically diagnose imaging scans.”
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Benjamin, Eyal Toledano and Eyal Gura founded Zebra in 2014.
The company is taking its products to market via a strategic partnership with Dell Services, which provides cloud based imaging storage solutions to more than 1,100 providers, including Intermountain Healthcare.
In addition to Intermountain, Zebra Medical is also funded by Khosla Ventures, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and OurCrowd.
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