Enlitic teams-up, gets funds from Australia’s Capitol Health

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Medical startup Enlitic is teaming-up with Australia’s radiology service provider, Capitol Health Limited, to transform medical diagnostics using deep learning for radiologists and healthcare providers.

Thanks to this partnership, the press release reads, real patients will directly benefit from deep learning, at scale and across a whole health care network, through many times faster, more accurate, and less expensive diagnostics, compared to legacy approaches.

Enlitic’s technology has already been tested diagnosing things like lung cancer and bone fractures.Together, the two companies will bring deep learning-supported diagnostics to the Australian and Asian healthcare markets. Also as part of the deal, Capitol Health will lead a $10 million Series B investment round in Enlitic.

Enlitic’s medical deep learning tools are commercially integrated end-to-end, and will power hundreds of radiologists’ workflow across Capitol Health’s large-scale care network. Enlitic leverages Capitol’s vast image archives across all radiology modalities (Ultrasound, CT, MRI, PET, X-Ray) to accelerate training of deep learning algorithms, and to support diagnosis of thousands of diseases and afflictions.

“The vast digitization of medical information – from images to lab tests to patient histories – along with recent breakthroughs in deep learning, has created by far the biggest opportunity that I have seen in more than 20 years in the field,” said Enlitic’s founder and CEO Jeremy Howard. “Enlitic’s new partnership with Capitol allows us to start realizing the vast potential of deep learning in healthcare on a global scale.”

The company’s technology has already been tested diagnosing things like lung cancer and bone fractures, but that’s obviously just a start. With more data being constantly added to the platform, Enlitic will be able to diagnose additional conditions.