OREM, Utah–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Videra Health, the asynchronous video and analytics healthcare platform, today announced the appointment of AI scientist, technologist and entrepreneur, Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors.

Dr. el Kaliouby is currently Deputy CEO at Smart Eye and the co-founder and former CEO of Affectiva, where she pioneered the company’s award-winning Emotion AI. Prior to Affectiva, she was a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, where she spearheaded applications of emotion recognition technology to benefit key research priorities from mental health to autism. Dr. el Kaliouby is also an angel investor and an executive fellow at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches on AI and startups.

“Rana’s deep experience in ethical, effective applications of technology to humanize critical interactions is invaluable to Videra Health as we work to strengthen the relationship between patients and providers nationwide,” said Loren Larsen, founder and CEO, Videra Health. “Her expertise and insights will be vital as we deploy solutions that scale and bolster the effectiveness of behavioral health treatment.”

“I’ve always been passionate about the application of Emotion AI in mental health,” said Rana el Kaliouby. “Videra Health combines video analytics and Emotion AI to help diagnose and treat mental health disorders. I look forward to supporting them as they scale their solutions and explore new opportunities to deploy them.”

Videra Health is an FDA-registered digital video platform focused on gathering valuable clinical data before, in-between, and after traditional in-office or tele-health visits. The platform uses powerful video analytics to help asynchronously monitor a patient’s mental health and push clinically meaningful alerts to their provider in a scalable and efficient way. Videra works as a stand alone system, or in conjunction with existing physical health remote patient monitoring solutions, to identify and solve the comorbidity that exists between chronic physical disease and unaddressed behavioral health disorders.

Based in Utah, the company is led by internationally-recognized healthcare and video-analytic experts, and is backed by investors such as Peterson Ventures, Rose Park Advisors, OATV and Jeremy Andrus.

For more information, visit: www.viderahealth.com.

About Videra Health

Videra Health is the remote patient monitoring video platform for behavioral health, powering rich interactions between patients and providers to open wide the “black box” of patient information that gets lost between visits. The FDA-registered digital platform connects providers and patients anytime, anywhere between visits and post-discharge via written and video assessments that translate into actionable quantitative and qualitative patient data. Based in Utah, the company is led by internationally-recognized healthcare and video-analytic experts, and is backed by investors such as Peterson Ventures, Rose Park Advisors, OATV and Jeremy Andrus. Find out more at www.viderahealth.com.