Portuguese AI Health Tech Sword enters Brazil´s Healthcare system
Tech News - Portuguese AI Health Tech company enters Brazil´s Healthcare system, that is considered to be the largest public healthcare system in the world.
Sword Health, that is led by Virgílio Bento, signed a technological cooperation agreement with the Brazilian government, according to an announcement by Brazilian Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha, made at the XXI Brazilian Congress of Health Informatics concerning the Portuguese-Brazilian partnership.
¨Innovation without access is injustice; it widens the gap between those who have access to what is innovative. It is very important that Sword is here today” - Brazilian Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha.
¨Brazil has one of the largest public health systems in the world and faces the same problem as everyone else: demand is growing faster than the capacity to meet it . This is the problem that Sword is solving through its technology: expanding access to healthcare in a scalable and equitable way to the entire population. Last year we started working in partnership with the governments of the United Kingdom, Greece and Portugal” - Sword's founder and CEO, Virgílio Bento.
With the expansion of AI Health Tech company Sword to the National Health Service (NHS) of Brazil, after entering the NHS of the United Kingdom, Germany, and Greece, the Portuguese Unicorn, that is headquartered in the United States, is set to expand to more National Health Services globally.
As a frontier AI company, Portuguese Unicorn Sword builds the foundational models that healthcare needs, training them for clinical reasoning and safety. Its AI Care platform puts those models to work alongside licensed clinicians and care teams, treating more than 1 million patients directly across physical pain, women's health, mental health, and cardiometabolic care, and orchestrating care for millions more worldwide. Sword is trusted by more than 2,500 of the world’s most sophisticated organizations, including sovereign governments, the US military, and the largest Fortune 500 companies, delivering high-quality care and more than $1.5 billion in healthcare savings to date.
