A new single-stage test using a combinatorial pooling method for COVID-19 diagnostic testing, that will help prevent the spread of the coronavirus by identifying infected people sooner and at a lower cost, has been developed by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The test was developed in a collaboration between...

Israel’s K Health, has raised $132 million. The company has developed a free mobile app that enables users to insert their age and gender and ailments to get an immediate initial diagnosis of what could be afflicting them. According to Allon Bloch, K Health’s CEO and co-founder when Covid-19 broke out, it created...

Kahun has started beta testing a new technology to help doctors diagnose patients. Kahun’s technology gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as it used its AI capabilities to tap into more than 2,000 papers and articles found in the medical library PubMed studying the new coronavirus. Using Kahun’s knowledge graph, doctors were...

Sight Diagnostics has announced a collaboration with Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv to mitigate the risk of contamination by COVID-19. Sight’s OLO blood analyser will provide rapid complete blood count (CBC) results in a dedicated lab to process samples of COVID-19 patients who are being monitored and treated in...

Medial EarlySign along with Maccabi Healthcare Services, is developing an algorithm to identify high-risk COVID cases. EarlySign’s COVID Complications AlgoMarker Identifies individuals at increased risk for having COVID-19 complications. With the goal of prioritizing patients for COVID-19 testing and treatment, this new AlgoMarker aids in triaging patients by reducing chart...