South Africas Envisionit Deep AI gets $1.65M to expand access to medical imaging

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  • They also offer tele-radiology for patients that require radiology reports.“Typically a radiographer takes X-rays, then patients go back home and collect the results later, sometimes after several months.
  • This was deployed to drive efficiency at a 700-bed hospital in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, which only had one radiologist.
Dr. Jaishree Naidoo was in charge of pediatric radiology at a South African hospital in 2014, when she had a moment of epiphany after coming across a news story on the usage of AI recognition pattern [+4504 chars]