Medbridge, a digital care firm, launched new AI-powered motion-capture capabilities on Thursday via its digital musculoskeletal and movement-based medication platform.
The Bellevue, Washington-based firm works with clinicians, hospitals, and well being techniques to deal with musculoskeletal (MSK) points. Its prospects embody Intermountain Well being, Kaiser Permanente and AdventHealth. The corporate gives an AI-driven software program platform that helps clinicians deal with sufferers via hybrid care. Sufferers can log into the corporate’s MSK program, Pathways, to carry out AI-monitored therapeutic workout routines, 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 workout routines whereas utilizing their cell phone or laptop’s digicam. The digicam will use Medbridge’s movement seize to detect physique components and positioning and supply suggestions to the clinician and affected person in actual time. It additionally identifies potential fall dangers. This know-how 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 in addition empowers them and their clinician to work collectively on future workout routines and training for higher, sooner outcomes. … We additionally use AI to summarize and floor the latest affected person exercise and affected person leads to our associate clinician’s EHR, serving to them shortly grasp what the affected person has been doing — and the way they’ve been doing — after they’ve been out of the workplace,” mentioned Donovan Campbell, CEO of Medbridge, in an e mail.
As well as, the corporate presents an AI chatbot that enables 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 perform, affected person satisfaction and affected person engagement, in accordance with Campbell.
The corporate launched these new capabilities to fight the healthcare scarcity, which can 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 presently, pelvic well being remedy appointment wait instances vary from six weeks to 6 months within the U.S.
“We imagine 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 must 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 to get it.”
Medbridge isn’t the one firm providing MSK assist. Others embody Hinge Well being and Sword Well being, although Medbridge differs as a result of it sells software program as a substitute of companies.
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