Canadian Hospitals to Use Israeli-made Tech to Protect Medical Staff

Hospitals in the Canadian city of Montreal will use technology developed by Tel Aviv-based startup Binah AI Ltd. to assist patients battling the coronavirus (Covid-19), the company announced Tuesday.

Using Binah.ai’s vital signs monitoring tool will help triage nurses check vital signs such as the heart rate, respiratory rate, and the blood’s oxygen saturation of patients without physical contact with them, according to the company’s statement. The condition of certain hospitalized patients can be monitored from their beds, and the vital signs of patients at home can be checked remotely using Binah.ai’s technology.

Binah.ai’s technology enables the extraction of a large set of vital signs and mental stress measurements based on analysis of a video taken from the upper cheek skin region of a human face. The video can be taken with any device equipped with a camera, including smartphones, tablets, and in-car cameras.

Founded in 2016, Binah.ai offers consulting services to large corporate customers that need help analyzing large amounts of data. When Binah.ai is hired, it helps companies become more efficient using data generated by the companies to identify the wasteful use of resources. The company has raised $14.5 million