Babylon Health, an AI-powered healthcare provider, has announced a partnership with Google Cloud to increase scalability and innovation.
London-based Babylon Health is a digital-first health-care company that employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to give consumers access to health information anytime and wherever they need it.
With the goal of making healthcare more accessible and inexpensive to 24 million patients worldwide, the company has worked with private and public organisations in the UK, North America, Southeast Asia, and Rwanda.
“Our job is to help people to stay well and we’re on a mission to provide affordable, accessible health care to everyone in the world,” explains Richard Noble, Engineering Director of Data at Babylon.
Babylon Health’s rapid growth has led it to seek a partner to help it scale.
“We work with a lot of private patient data and we must ensure that it stays private,” explains Natalie Godec, cloud engineer at Babylon. “At the same time, we must enable our teams to innovate with that data while meeting different national regulatory standards.”
Therefore, Babylon Health required a partner it felt could handle such demands.
“We chose Google Cloud because we knew it could scale with us and support us with our data science and analysis and we could build the tools we needed with it quickly,” added Noble. “It offers the solutions that enable us to focus on our core business, access to health.”
The shift to Google Cloud, according to Babylon Health, has allowed it to better analyse its data using AI, unlocking new tools and services that benefit physicians and users alike. It used to take six months to construct a new data model and provide people access, but today it only takes a week, according to the corporation.
In London, Babylon Health offers its ‘GP at Hand’ service, which functions as a digital GP practise in collaboration with the NHS. Patients can connect with NHS clinicians remotely 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and receive prescriptions if necessary. Patients will be referred to a suitable location if physical examinations are required.
