Zebra Medical Vision: First Artificial Intelligence Deployment At Scale To Improve Medical Imaging Diagnosis In 20 Developing Countries

SHEFAYIM, Israel & BANGALORE, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zebra Medical Vision (https://www.zebra-med.com/) and Telerad Tech, the technology arm of India’s first and largest teleradiology company - Teleradiology Solutions (TRS) corporation, announced today that they have signed a partnership to bring Zebra-Med’s cloud based deep learning analytics engine to over 20 countries and 150 hospitals and healthcare organizations.

Zebra Medical Vision has been a pioneer in the development and commercialization of deep learning imaging analytics solutions, and since 2015 has released clinical applications that automatically identify liver, lung, bone and cardiovascular disease, as well as breast cancer and intra-cranial bleeding. The company’s solutions have been implemented in hospitals across Europe and the US, and the collaboration with Telerad Tech will allow expansion of the company’s footprint to India, broader Asia and Africa.

“Our company is proud to serve healthcare systems that treat millions of patients in over 20 countries globally,” noted Dr. Arjun Kalyanpur, Founder and CEO of Teleradiology Solutions and Telerad Tech. “Our emphasis and focus has always been on high quality radiology reporting and accessibility. Zebra’s ability to produce and deploy AI for radiology is the exact type of added value we hope to bring to help fulfill our vision of impacting patient diagnosis and medical care in India, Asia, and Africa.”

“Zebra’s mission has always been to make radiology more accessible and affordable globally,” added Elad Benjamin, co-founder and CEO of Zebra medical Vision. “Our partnership with Telerad Tech will help us bridge the growing gap between demand and supply of radiology services, and allow developing healthcare economies to make a leap in their quality of care by using state of the art deep learning technology.”

The agreement is scheduled to be signed as part of the visit of India’s Prime Minister to Israel, further strengthening the growing commercial and technological ties between India and Israel.

About Zebra Medical Vision:

Zebra Medical Vision uses machine and deep learning to create and provide next generation products and services to the healthcare industry. Its Imaging Analytics Platform allows healthcare institutions to identify patients at risk of disease, and offer improved, preventative treatment pathways to improve patient care. Headquartered in Kibbutz Shefayim Israel, the Company was founded in 2014 by Co-Founders Eyal Toledano, Eyal Gura, and Elad Benjamin and funded by Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, Intermountain Investment Fund, OurCrowd and Dolby Ventures. For more information visit www.zebra-med.com/

About Teleradiology Solutions
Teleradiology Solutions was founded in 2002 by two Yale University trained physicians. It provides teleradiology services (i.e. CT, MRI, X-ray, Ultrasound, Nuclear medicine, Echocardiograms) to over 150 hospitals in 19 countries globally, including the United States, Singapore, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Maldives and remote parts of India. It is the first organization outside Singapore to be accredited by the Ministry of Health, Singapore, and has provided teleradiology services to Singapore since 2005. In 2016, it won its first Indian government tender and has set up teleradiology services for the state of Tripura. In the same year, it announced a pan-India tie-up with GE Healthcare and the setting up of a 3D lab in Bangalore for Mass General hospital in Boston. Telerad Tech, the technology arm of Teleradiology Solutions, has developed its flagship product, RADSpa, an integrated RIS/PACS workflow engine which allows for seamless transfer of images across geographies and efficient interpretation and reporting of the radiologic examinations by a global network of radiologists. For more information, visit www.teleradtech.com / www.telradsol.com.