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Ibex Medical Analytics vs Included Health

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Ibex Medical Analytics

Healthcare

Cancer detection AI for breast, prostate and gastric pathology deployed in routine clinical service, not just pilots

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Full reviewWebsite
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Included Health

Healthcare

Care navigation and virtual care in one contract for self funded employers and health plans

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The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Ibex Medical Analytics the European IVDR indication is broader than the United States position, where some applications operate under laboratory developed test arrangements rather than FDA authorisation, which determines whether AI output can influence a signed report.; Included Health owning both the navigation recommendations and the virtual care delivery creates a structural incentive to steer members to the vendor own clinicians, and an employer should require disclosure and measurement of how often that happens.
  • They diverge on capability: Ibex Medical Analytics covers Ibex Breast Suite, Included Health covers Care navigation.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Ibex Medical Analytics and Included Health actually diverge.

Attributes where Ibex Medical Analytics and Included Health differ
AttributeIbex Medical AnalyticsIncluded Health
PlatformsWeb, Cloud, On-premiseWeb, iOS, Android

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Healthcare).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Ibex Medical Analytics

  • Ibex Breast Suite
  • Ibex Prostate
  • Ibex Gastric
  • Second read safety net
  • Prescreening triage
  • Heatmap localisation
  • Quality reporting
  • Scanner-agnostic ingestion

Only in Included Health

  • Care navigation
  • Provider quality steerage
  • Expert medical opinion
  • Virtual primary care
  • Virtual behavioural health
  • Virtual urgent care
  • Benefits integration
  • Employer reporting

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Ibex Medical Analytics

  • A histopathology department that cannot recruit and wants an automated safety net on every prostate and breast biopsy before sign outnot Included Health
  • A private laboratory group standardising Gleason grading across pathologists with known interobserver variabilitynot Included Health
  • A service digitising histopathology that needs a clinical governance argument to justify the scanning programme to its boardnot Included Health
  • A gastrointestinal service wanting Helicobacter pylori detection automated so pathologists spend their time on the neoplastic casesnot Included Health

Included Health

  • A large self funded employer whose members cannot tell which specialist to see and who currently absorbs the cost of poor referral decisionsnot Ibex Medical Analytics
  • An employer that has bought several point solutions and needs one front door that routes members to the ones already paid fornot Ibex Medical Analytics
  • A self funded plan wanting expert second opinions before high cost elective surgery, where a changed recommendation pays for the programmenot Ibex Medical Analytics
  • An employer replacing separate navigation and telehealth vendors with one contract and one member experiencenot Ibex Medical Analytics

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Ibex Medical Analytics

  • The European IVDR indication is broader than the United States position, where some applications operate under laboratory developed test arrangements rather than FDA authorisation, which determines whether AI output can influence a signed report.
  • It requires a fully digitised histopathology workflow, and slide scanning, storage and validation typically cost several times the algorithm licence.
  • Running it as a second read safety net adds a discrepancy resolution workload that departments consistently underestimate, and someone senior has to adjudicate every flag.
  • Coverage is limited to breast, prostate and gastric, so a general histopathology department still reads the majority of its case mix without any AI support.
  • Pricing is per case and unpublished, so cost scales directly with biopsy volume and does not flatten as the department grows.

Included Health

  • Owning both the navigation recommendations and the virtual care delivery creates a structural incentive to steer members to the vendor own clinicians, and an employer should require disclosure and measurement of how often that happens.
  • Pricing is per employee per month across the whole eligible population, so a plan with low navigation engagement pays for everyone to serve the minority who call.
  • Savings claims rest on avoided costs and changed referral decisions, which are counterfactual by nature, so performance guarantees need very careful definition or they measure activity rather than money.
  • The company is a merger of three organisations with different origins, and members and benefits teams still encounter seams between navigation, virtual primary care and behavioural health that the single brand implies are absent.
  • It sells primarily to large self funded employers, so mid market employers and fully insured plans find both the pricing and the implementation effort disproportionate to their size.

Pricing, plan by plan

Ibex Medical Analytics

On request
  • Ibex clinical applications$undefined/year
    • Priced per case analysed under an annual agreement
    • Breast, prostate and gastric licensed as separate suites
    • Regulatory indication differs between Europe and the United States

Included Health

On request
  • Included Health$undefined/year
    • Per employee per month across the eligible population, quoted not published
    • Navigation and virtual care modules priced separately or bundled
    • Some components offered with performance guarantees tied to measured savings

Which should you pick?

Choose Ibex Medical Analytics if

  • You need ibex breast suite.
  • You work on Web, Cloud, On-premise.
  • You also want ibex prostate.
Ibex Medical Analytics review

Choose Included Health if

  • You need care navigation.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want provider quality steerage.
Included Health review

Questions people ask

Is Ibex Medical Analytics or Included Health better?
Neither clearly leads. Ibex Medical Analytics starts at On request and Included Health at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Ibex Medical Analytics or Included Health?
Ibex Medical Analytics starts at On request and Included Health at On request.
Does Ibex Medical Analytics or Included Health run on more platforms?
Ibex Medical Analytics runs on Web, Cloud, On-premise. Included Health runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Ibex Medical Analytics best used for?
Ibex Medical Analytics is most often used for a histopathology department that cannot recruit and wants an automated safety net on every prostate and breast biopsy before sign out, a private laboratory group standardising gleason grading across pathologists with known interobserver variability, a service digitising histopathology that needs a clinical governance argument to justify the scanning programme to its board, a gastrointestinal service wanting helicobacter pylori detection automated so pathologists spend their time on the neoplastic cases. Of those, a histopathology department that cannot recruit and wants an automated safety net on every prostate and breast biopsy before sign out and a private laboratory group standardising gleason grading across pathologists with known interobserver variability are not what Included Health is typically brought in for.
What can Ibex Medical Analytics do that Included Health cannot?
Ibex Medical Analytics covers Ibex Breast Suite, Ibex Prostate, Ibex Gastric, Second read safety net. Included Health covers Care navigation, Provider quality steerage, Expert medical opinion, Virtual primary care.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Ibex Medical Analytics: Is Ibex FDA cleared?

The regulatory position differs by product and market. In Europe the products carry CE marking under IVDR for defined diagnostic indications; in the United States some applications are used under laboratory developed test arrangements. Confirm the exact status for the specific application and market before assuming it can influence a signed report.

Included Health: What exactly is Included Health?

The combination of Grand Rounds Health navigation, Doctor On Demand virtual care and the original Included Health concierge service, operating under one brand since late 2021.

Ibex Medical Analytics: Second read or prescreening?

Both are supported. Second read as a safety net is the more common clinical governance justification; prescreening is the efficiency case.

Included Health: Who pays for it?

The self funded employer or the health plan pays a per employee per month fee. Virtual care visits may also carry member cost sharing depending on plan design.

Ibex Medical Analytics: Does it need a particular scanner?

It ingests from the major whole slide scanner vendors rather than requiring a single fleet, which is a practical advantage over vendors tied to one scanner.

Included Health: Is there a minimum size?

No published minimum, but it sells primarily to large self funded employers and the pricing and implementation effort do not suit small organisations.

Ibex Medical Analytics: What tissue types are covered?

Breast, prostate and gastric. Everything else in the case mix is unsupported.

Included Health: How does it recommend providers?

Through data driven quality analysis rather than a plain directory. Ask specifically how those recommendations are produced and how often they resolve to the company own virtual clinicians.

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