Medbridge, a digital care firm, launched new AI-powered motion-capture capabilities on Thursday by means of its digital musculoskeletal and movement-based medication platform.
The Bellevue, Washington-based firm works with clinicians, hospitals, and well being methods to sort out musculoskeletal (MSK) points. Its clients embrace Intermountain Well being, Kaiser Permanente and AdventHealth. The corporate supplies an AI-driven software program platform that helps clinicians deal with sufferers by means of hybrid care. Sufferers can log into the corporate’s MSK program, Pathways, to carry out AI-monitored therapeutic workouts, obtain steering on managing their situation and observe their progress. Clinicians can then monitor their sufferers’ exercise to raised perceive how they’re doing.
With the brand new movement seize capabilities, sufferers can get extra correct suggestions on workouts whereas utilizing their cell phone or laptop’s digicam. The digicam will use Medbridge’s movement seize to detect physique elements and positioning and supply suggestions to the clinician and affected person in actual time. It additionally identifies potential fall dangers. This expertise was beforehand solely out there for decrease again ache, however is now out there for ache within the neck, elbows, hips, knees and different areas.
“This real-time suggestions not solely helps sufferers immediately but additionally empowers them and their clinician to work collectively on future workouts and schooling for higher, sooner outcomes. … We additionally use AI to summarize and floor the newest affected person exercise and affected person ends in our accomplice clinician’s EHR, serving to them shortly grasp what the affected person has been doing — and the way they’ve been doing — once they’ve been out of the workplace,” mentioned Donovan Campbell, CEO of Medbridge, in an e mail.
As well as, the corporate provides an AI chatbot that permits sufferers to ask questions and obtain responses on MSK care.
Medbridge will observe the success of those new AI capabilities by measuring affected person ache administration, doctor operate, affected person satisfaction and affected person engagement, in response to Campbell.
The corporate launched these new capabilities to fight the healthcare scarcity, which is able to solely worsen “as America ages, clinician burnout will increase, and the shortage of suppliers turns into more and more profound,” Campbell mentioned. He famous that at the moment, pelvic well being remedy appointment wait occasions vary from six weeks to 6 months within the U.S.
“We consider that the way forward for care seems to be like AI doing what AI can, whereas people do what people ought to,” he mentioned. “With out offloading care and administrative capability to AI brokers that may increase the overall availability of human care capability, we should ration care sooner or later. Put merely, if we don’t begin bringing AI into affected person care, individuals who want care received’t be capable of get it.”
Medbridge isn’t the one firm providing MSK assist. Others embrace Hinge Well being and Sword Well being, although Medbridge differs as a result of it sells software program as an alternative of companies.
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