For many people around the world, a doctor’s visit can be exceptionally fraught due to a language barrier in a scenario where accuracy and the ability to understand and be understood are of utmost importance.
But four former and current students of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a new tool that could mean an end to such situations, with an automatic translation platform that is designed specifically for encounters between patients and their physicians.
“It is a simultaneous translator between doctors and patients who have both language and cultural challenges,” explains CommU CEO Hadar Eliad, MD.
“The objective of CommU is to offer free communication between patient and doctor,” she tells NoCamels.
Israel is a melting pot of citizens from a multitude of countries, and while Hebrew is the primary language, more than 20 percent of the population is Arab and another 15 percent are native Russian speakers.
The startup was established by Eliad along with CFO Efrat Ordan, CTO Hanna Ben-Yehuda and COO Ella Fainitsky. Eliad and Fainitsky were both medical students, while Ben-Yehuda was studying computer science and Ordan electrical engineering.
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CommU CEO Hadar Eliad, CFO Efrat Ordan, and COO Ella Fainitsky are current Technion students. Company CTO Hanna Ben-Yehuda is a Technion alumna.
