Babylon Health wants to turn your smartphone into a doctor

Babylon Health, a London-based startup that allows users to set up video consultations with doctors, has raised $25 million in funding, which it claims will be used to develop an artificially intelligent medical assistant that will pre-screen users before they decide to set up a video consultation. The assistant will be built into the company’s app, and will make it so that Babylon isn’t relying solely on the 100 or so doctors that it currently employs. Pair this with the $8 million round of funding that PushDoctor, a similar service, reported last week, and it looks like British healthcare startups are really popular with investors at the moment.