One of the main selling points of AI in healthcare is the promise to deliver interventions much earlier, where not only are they likely to be more effective, but they’re also cheaper to apply.  Israeli startup CLEW Medical aim to help matters in that regard with the launch of their new AI-based predictive analytics platform.

The platform aims to prevent the kind of complications that pose a significant threat to the life of the patient.  It combines real-time data with machine learning to provide medical staff with actionable insights.

Rich data

The company say that the average patient has around 300 different data points surrounding their health.  Some of these provide detailed insight, some just a fraction of measurement.  Taken collectively however, it’s very difficult for staff to find the needle in the haystack that makes a difference, especially in the time-crunched environment most clinicians operate in.

The AI platform developed by CLEW aims to provide rapid and actionable insights for patients in a range of departments.  Their potential use cases include:

• Actionable tracking for at risk patients – Supplies early notifications for rapid response teams once the system identifies a patient experiencing unexpected clinical deterioration
• Patient flow and clinical path management – Identifies deviations from the patient’s foreseen medical outcomes
• Continuous assessment of level of care – Provides actionable analytics to determine if the patient’s level of care should be altered
• Real-time clinical resource allocation – Prioritizes allocation of scarce clinical resources to save costs

“More and more we’re seeing hospitals around the world adapting to the digital age of medical technology, and we’d like to make this digital transformation in healthcare as efficient as possible by leveraging data that’s already available to us,” the company say. “With our advanced clinical ICU-tested algorithms that customizes physiological models and predicts patients deterioration before it happens, our goal is to bring hospitals into the future of medical care, and redefine healthcare delivery.”