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The
Most Innovative
Companies Bringing
AI to Healthcare
connected, cross-cultural community where everyone
contributes to, learns about, and perpetually optimizes this
experiment called life.”
The Journey of the Organization
iCarbonX was instituted in Shenzhen, China, in the year
2015. iCarbonX finished its Series A financing led by
Tencent in the following year. The post investment value of
iCarbonX reached $1 billion. Later that year, iCarbonX
announced its acquisition of Imagu Vision Technologies
and the establishment of iCarbonX-Israel R&D center.
iCarbonX Research Shenzhen, announced a collaboration
with the Boston University School of Public Health
(BUSPH), in 2017. Meum™ which is the digital health
management platform built up by iCarbonX, was officially
released to the public, and its digital life ecosystem partners
later that year.
Simultaneously the company announced its alliance with
seven companies and that iCarbonX ecosystem has invested
a total of nearly $400 million in the seven companies that
form the alliance: SomaLogic, HealthTell, PatientsLikeMe,
AOBiome, GALT, Imagu and Robustnique. This year,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited iCarbonX, and it
partnered with OP Financial and DaChan Food to Deploy
Precision Nutrition Industry.
AI Revolutionizing Healthcare
“AI system could learn to
understand human health and
human life better than we
do.” says Wang. “The AI
will try to draw a
iCarbonX is leading
formula for life. Life is
the way into the
digital, like a
computer program —
post-genomic era
if you want to
by creating the
understand the results
platform for digitizing,
of the programming,
how the genes lead to
analyzing, and
phenotypes; it is
understanding life
sufficiently complicated
for you to need an AI
system to figure out the
rules.”
“
”
iCarbonX is collecting every kind of
data around an individual’s life. That includes genomics,
proteomics, metabolomics, antibiotics, and microbiomes. It
also includes smart devices checking everything around
one’s lifestyle, diets, the environment data, and even your
emotions and modes. “So we’re collecting everything
around you,” quotes Wang.
Future of Healthcare Industry and iCarbonX
Meum: A Personal Health Guide for Individuals
Meum is a digital health management platform that helps
people to easily create a digital profile of their lives, so they
can understand and monitor their present health status,
predict the trends, and improve their future through
customized solutions around their health, aging, and
disease.
Each user has a dedicated digital life account on the Meum
platform. With it, they can record and display more than ten
types of data from their comprehensive health exams —
genes, metabolism, intestinal microbes, and phenotype data
collected from iCarbonX’s one-stop smart devices.
The Smart Health Coach within the Meum App can then
manage that comprehensive health data. One only needs to
record one’s dietary and life habits through audio or photos;
the Smart Health Coach will automatically analyze nutrition
intake, measure balance level, alert are available for any
kind of abnormality, and provide customized solutions.
DECEMBER 2018
Applying digital technology in healthcare opens a lot of
possibilities. In the future a lot of the digital technologies
should be or has to be applied in healthcare, believes Wang.
Because the doctor will know the patient better and the
patient will know themselves better using these kinds of
technologies.
If one wants to use a skincare product, one should know
your skin first. “If you use a medicine for yourself, you
should know your disease first,” says Wang. So one needs
to digitalize where and what one wants. This will allow and
help people, start to manage your digital life, not just
manage ones’ life from pure instinct feelings, but actually
from data. iCarbonX is just doing that. It will be more
intelligent and easy to use for every individual.
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