K Health licenses 20-year medical dataset from Israeli HMO
Allon Bloch · Building An Info Layer for Personal Health // Allon Bloch, K Health (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Jan 16, 2019 · at 4:46
Allon Bloch, Co-Founder and CEO of K Health, explains the origins of the clinical data powering K Health's medical diagnostic models.
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“So we license a very large data set from an HMO out in Israel that has about 20 years of data.”
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