Recently, Babylon Health acquired the company Higi, which offers health services in physical establishments and Digital Health tools.
Babylon Health is one of the most important Digital Health companies in the world, since, through its mobile application, it offers telemedicine services, health monitoring, educational information on healthy habits, symptom checker based on Artificial Intelligence (AI ), among others.
Higi is a health services company founded in 2012, which offers care in health stations located in supermarkets, pharmacies, among other establishments. In addition, through its application it offers home health solutions.
According to Business Wire, Higi stations have been used by more than 61 million people in the United States. On the other hand, Babylon Health has more than 24 million users on five continents and performs more than 5 thousand teleconsultations a day.
Following the acquisition of Higi, Babylon announced that the AI-based symptom checker chatbot will be added to the company's mobile app. The symptom checker, allows users to obtain relevant medical information at any time, it is only necessary to answer a few questions. In this way, the AI system will evaluate the health status depending on the responses and symptoms recorded.
“Combining Symptom Checker, which focuses more on providing information for consumers' immediate health needs, with Higi's long-term view of a patient's health through risk testing and longitudinal biometric tracking, is a first step to add additional tools to the consumer toolkit, empowering them to proactively and holistically address their health needs,” explained Ali Parsa, CEO and Founder of Babylon.
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