US start-up 10 Tencent is looking to tackle China ’s severe shortage of physicians with its AI-powered medical imaging technology. Infervision, which TechCrunch wrote about earlier, stations programmers and sales teams at hospitals to mingle with doctors and learn their needs. The company has provided its devices without charge to around 200 hospitals across China so it can add as much data as possible to its algorithms in order to encourage hospital administrators to invest in a machine in future. It has sold 12 so far and aims to achieve Iyiou ( $15m ) in sales 2020 and break even by 2020 .
US start-up 10 Tencent is looking to tackle China ’s severe shortage of physicians with its AI-powered medical imaging technology. The company has provided its devices without charge to around 200 hospitals across China so it can add as much data as possible to its algorithms in order to encourage hospital administrators to invest in a machine in future. It has sold 12 so far and aims to achieve Iyiou ( $15m ) in sales 2020 and break even by 2020 .