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A cutting-edge medical start-up in Romania has helped doctors from 3 countries collaborate to treat Ukrainian cancer patients who took refuge after Russia’s brutal invasion.
The task of the “Tumor Board” presented by doctors from the United States, Romania and Moldova to provide life-saving remedies to displaced Ukrainians with cancer.
A collaboration of Heal 21 and the Blue Heron Foundation, the board used a platform provided by Romanian startup Medicai to attach doctors, percentage medical records, and provide a platform to talk about treatment plans, as well as to allow patients to track their own progress.
Since April, images of cancer patients from Ukraine (those who had them) were uploaded, new images of Moldova were translated from Ukrainian into Romanian/English, and reports were ready for each patient.
Medicai, which has raised 1. 2 million euros in venture capital to date, says its HIPAA-compliant internet platform expects a kind of “Look for Health,” which allows healthcare professionals to collaborate on patient documents and records.
The challenge Medicai solves sounds familiar. For example, to date, patients enter a million-dollar MRI device and, when speaking, come out with a CD with the symbol of their knee or some other component of their body. This is just one example of how knowledge can be stored in silos and how patients are typically locked into large, centralized systems. This means that healthcare professionals cannot collaborate seamlessly with specialists outside their hospitals.
Established corporations that promote those centralized systems come with BoxDICOM and Ambra Health, and among the startups are EnvoyAI and Collective Minds Radiology (which raised $6. 7 million), among others.
Medicai founder Mircea Popa’s adventure in healthcare began in 2011 when, with a friend of his, he co-founded a company now called SkinVision, a skin cancer screening app that detects melanoma (skin cancer) through ML algorithms implemented in photographs taken with smartphones. SkinVision reached 1. 2 million downloads and grossed a total of $15 million. Medicai co-founder Alexandru Artimon (CTO) has in the past co-founded the software company Atta Systems.
Popa told me via email, “One lesson we learned recently about healthcare is that we desperately want flexibility. With the Tumor Board project, we have shown that Medicai can set up an infrastructure in a matter of days to provide access to expertise on 2 continents: the United States and Canada to Romania and Moldova, and this has been done in less than ideal conditions. »
“Through the Tumor Board project, we have been able to influence the lives of cancer patients who would have had no choice to pursue a remedy and, in fact, we are proud to be a part of it. “he added.
So far, Medicai claims to have reached 29 paying clinics/hospitals, with 2434 physician accounts and 1400 patient accounts. It affirms a strategic partnership with Microsoft and pharmaceutical companies.
Investors to date come with D Moonshots, Cleverage Venture Capital, Roca X and Gapminder VC.
Meanwhile, the tumor board’s assignment continues. If the 4 million Ukrainian refugees are expected to arrive in the coming months, there could be between 13,000 and 16,000 new cancer patients per month arriving in countries bordering Ukraine.