Saving Lives in the ICU Through Artificial Intelligence

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Hospitals today run according to evidence-based medicine. That makes for smart science. But for critical care, it can be a problem. A patient may appear normal, but if you had a sign that, in two to three hours, that patient will need a major intervention, if you don’t do it now, you are already too late. The biggest problem in the ICU is that we don’t respond in time. Clew Medical software connects to the ICU’s systems – for example, those that track blood pressure and heart rate – and pairs it with data from a patient’s electronic medical record. Then adds a third element – the cloud. Using AI, Clew can match a patient’s history and current vital signs with knowledge from thousands of other patients in similar situations to predict the patient’s trajectory more accurately than an overworked doctor or nurse can.

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