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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. 41