AI Startup Navina Leverages Amazon Web Services To Improve Patient Care

Ronen Lavi and Shay Perera have spent years working to develop and deploy AI in one of the most demanding environments in the world--the elite intelligence units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Lavi established and led the AI Lab of Israel's Military Intelligence and Perera served there as manager of machine learning and computer vision research and development. After being awarded a National Security Award in 2018, they left the IDF to launch a startup, as many Israelis with similar experience and skills have done before them. The rapid digital transformation of the healthcare industry worldwide, the proliferation of healthcare data, the increasing complexity of healthcare (including its administration), the dearth of qualified personnel--and the Covid pandemic--have all contributed to a rising demand for AI solutions, intended to assist with detection, diagnosis, treatment, preventive care and wellness. The wealth of data that is produced by digitized medical records is what modern AI approaches (deep learning) require so they can "learn" from examples, automate certain decisions, and provide a helping hand to physicians and healthcare staff.