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Shiva Suri gain a alone perspective into how radiotherapist make for when he quarantined and shared a home part with his mom , a well - regarded radiologist .

“ I watched her work day in and day out , and she was waste about seven to eight hour on wearisome work flow tasks , ” Suri said . “ Only 5 % of her time , she had her radiology consider cap on . That was really sad . ”

So , Suri , who was an locomotive engineer atbig data analytics ship’s company Confluentat the time , built New Lantern , a inauguration that automatize tedious radiology - related tasks like making 3D mensuration on scans and account writing .

Suri ( depict above , lower center ) mark that his mom ’s workday orbit primarily around two software system : PACS , or the digital library of medical images where doctors see scan ; and the reporting software where she would transform those epitome into actionable diagnoses .

trade between peter felt unnecessarily clunky , so New Lantern combined these cock into one political platform .

Eric Vishria , a general partner at Benchmark , say that he ’s looked at other startups working on AI - power radiology but most focus on image analytic thinking . He passed on those others , in part because the engineering is n’t reallyready to replace human radiologists .

For years , it’sbeen predictedthat AI would make radiologists obsolete . But rather , there ’s ashortage of theseprofessionals .

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Suri ’s realization was that instead of using AI to analyze paradigm , AI can assist with the drudgery “ and let the doctor do what doctors enjoy doing and are really secure at , which is read the scans , ” Vishria say .

New Lantern arrogate that its computer software can significantly raise radiologist ’ efficiency , enabling them to fill out twice as many cases in the same prison term skeleton .

“ That ’s what got me really excited about it , ” Vishria enjoin .

On Wednesday , New Lantern announced that it raised a $ 19 million Series A lead by Benchmark .

New Lantern ’s end is to replace and modernize how radiotherapist work not only with the assist of AI but also by see that all data is salt away in the swarm .

Some vendors of PACS , which stands for Picture Archiving and Communication System , are still host on - prem , according to Suri .

The incumbent providers of PACS are GE Healthcare and Philips . Meanwhile , Microsoft ’s Nuance dominates reporting software , but Rad AI , a Khosla Ventures - backed AI - first caller , secern TechCrunch that it hasgained important market place portion .

However , New Lantern has big plan to all cut off radioscopy software with its product .

“ Twenty - five years ago , we made the switch from [ physical ] cinema to PACS , ” Suri enounce . “ We want to be the big evolution of the market since PACS was invented . ”

Suri slump to discuss customer , but he did say that some radiology practices are already using the fellowship ’s mathematical product .

One thing is clear : His mom is certainly a fan of New Lantern .