5 digital health startups you need to watch in 2019

Mediktor

Headquarters: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Founded: 2011
Leaders: Co-founder and CEO Cristian Pascual, and co-founder and medical director Dr. Oscar García-Esquirol.

Mediktor’s symptom-checking app combines AI, natural language recognition and patient data to detect symptoms and offers people a listing of possible conditions, recommendations and even connections with medical professionals within a health insurance network. The platform learns from every interaction, developing an advanced intuition, according to the company.

The symptom-checking app has been clinically validated at the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona in Spain. A second study, at Hospital Clinical San Carlos in Madrid, aims to predict the need for admission and surgery during the triage stage.

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