OrthoCarolina Announces Strategic Partnership with Patient-Centered AI  Platform Medical Brain®

OrthoCarolina Announces Strategic Partnership with Patient-Centered AI Platform Medical Brain®

Charlotte, NC and New York (August 22, 2023) – OrthoCarolina, one of the nation’s leading orthopedic practices providing better care at every step, and healthPrecision announced today the formation of a strategic partnership to bring Medical Brain®, a state-of-the-art AI platform that delivers real-time, high-precision patient-centric care, to OrthoCarolina’s vast network of over 300 providers at nearly 40 locations across the Southeast.

The groundbreaking collaboration will be Medical Brain®’s first foray into the orthopedic space and will play a key role in advancing OrthoCarolina’s commitment to value-based care. Medical Brain® is a proven AI platform that, in real-time, marries
the power of advanced patient-centric decision support and real-time care orchestration. Through the Medical Brain® mobile app, patients will experience the advantages of 24/7 personalized clinical guidance, accessible anytime and anywhere. Simultaneously, providers will gain the comfort and efficiency of an intelligent extended arm, continuously monitoring their patients and orchestrating care when needed, thereby improving patient outcomes while significantly reducing provider and staff workloads.

HIGH VALUE FOR POST-ACUTE CARE WITH THE MEDICAL BRAIN

HIGH VALUE FOR POST-ACUTE CARE WITH THE MEDICAL BRAIN

healthPrecision delivers High Value Care for Post-Acute services with the Medical Brain, an intelligent clinical partner for better outcomes. Medical Brain brings its post-acute services for truly revolutionary care that combines the power of AI and medical expertise to deliver actionable, evidence-based insights to clinicians in real-time. The Impact? Exacting quality every-time. No gaps, no delays, highly personalized care in real-time. High value care is our priority, each time.
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healthPrecision Announces New York City Administration For Children’s Services Selects The COVID-19 Medical Brain For 24/7 Employee Support During COVID-19

healthPrecision Announces New York City Administration For Children’s Services Selects The COVID-19 Medical Brain For 24/7 Employee Support During COVID-19

NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and healthPrecision are pleased to announce they are collaborating to bring the COVID-19 Medical Brain to thousands of ACS employees serving and protecting children and youth in the New York City area.

The COVID-19 Medical Brain uses the power of AI to complete pre-work health screening, incorporating the latest guidelines from the CDC and the health departments of New York State and New York City (DoHMH).

The app, available on Apple and Android devices, communicates with users in easy-to-understand, conversational language. It is available continuously and responds in real-time.

The Medical Brain meets strict data privacy and confidentiality standards to securely screen employees based on symptoms, potential exposure and test results so they can safely access their workplaces and the community to provide essential services. A badge is issued for safe facility access.

These capabilities are especially important for the thousands of mission-driven ACS employees who work tirelessly with children and families in their homes and communities.

“Since the beginning of the pandemic, healthPrecision has been deeply invested in using our advanced AI applications to keep people safe now and in the long term,” said Eyal Ephrat, MD, CEO and cofounder of healthPrecision. “We are thrilled to partner with ACS to protect some of the most essential workers right here in New York City: the public servants who are risking their own health – and their families’ health – to care for vulnerable infants, children, and youth who need extra support during this trying time.”

“The health and safety of staff, and the children and families we serve, is our top priority and we’ve continued to put protocols in place to help our staff carry out their mission safely during the pandemic. The launch of the new COVID-19 Medical Brain app is just one more way we’re working to protect and support ACS staff during this challenging time,” said Commissioner David A. Hansell.

About New York Administration for Children’s Services
The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and wellbeing of New York City’s children and families by providing child welfare, juvenile justice, and early care and education services. ACS seeks to recruit Youth Development Specialists (YDS) to provide safe and secure supervision and care to at-risk youth who are placed in secure juvenile detention by the court.

About healthPrecision: healthPrecision is committed to breakthrough changes in healthcare and population well-being through innovative technology that helps people improve their health long-term. healthPrecision’s team of 70+ physicians and nurses, data science specialists, and medical engineers combine their skills to create leading decision support systems for the industry and serve our healthcare heroes in the midst of this crisis.

For more information contact healthPrecision at:
Bev@healthprecision.com
772-486-5868

ACS
mediainquiry@acs.nyc.gov
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/acs/index.page

Contact:
mediainquiry@acs.nyc.gov

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Covid-19 and the Medical Brain

Covid-19 and the Medical Brain

Since the Covid-19 pandemic started, we’ve been working in NYC, the original epicenter, to help flatten the curve.
We’re proven and trusted by hospitals, physicians, and by the City. We’ve been helping their healthcare workers day in and day out to monitor and manage their Covid-19 situation to protect them and their fellow New Yorkers.

What Aviation Can Teach Us About Health Care And The COVID-19 Response

What Aviation Can Teach Us About Health Care And The COVID-19 Response

Healthcare workers are the front-line COVID-19 response team, indisputably essential to containing this unpredictable, highly lethal and significantly consequential pandemic. Unlike their aviation counterparts who are supported through high stress situations, clinicians often lack two essential tools that are basics in the cockpit: real-time decision-support systems and daily reconnaissance. The Medical Brain was built for both and delivers the power of aviation tools to the clinical environment.

 

What Aviation Can Teach Us About Health Care And The COVID-19 Response

Having spent time in aviation, I’ve had the experience of dealing with the complexities of flight and the risk associated with hundreds of variables—known and unknown—threatening catastrophe if mishandled.

Despite this daunting risk equation, the industry’s safety record is remarkable. In 2019, for instance, nearly 3 million passengers flew across the US on a daily basis. They all landed safely.1

Unsurprisingly, there are parallels between the aviation and health care industries. Both share complexities of similar magnitude, and both have high stakes—life and death, in fact—should errors occur.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the stressors it has placed on health care systems and professionals worldwide, let’s take a look at how health care can learn a thing or two from aviation.

We didn’t handle COVID-19 the same way we handle flight risks

The immense pressure and emotional toll COVID-19 has had on our health care professionals. As with highly complex flight missions, COVID-19 proved to be a complex, demanding, and stressful challenge—one that we knew would have dire consequences if not successfully controlled.

While dwelling on what could have been is not the best way forward, I believe that addressing the multivariate, unpredictable nature of the pandemic in the same way we manage flight risks could have positively impacted the lives of millions of Americans.

How aviation systems support decision-making

During my many years in aviation, I became intimately acquainted with numerous systems whose sole purpose was to control flight outcomes by controlling for human error.

The airline industry leverages data from all possible sources, delivers it at the precise time needed in an easy to digest format, creating an exacting culture of hazard control.

Although skilled and highly trained professionals are essential to the aviation and health care industries, human error is always a risk. It’s a risk that has significant emotional consequences for pilots and clinicians alike, who rightly demand professional excellence of themselves.

The use of real-time, intelligent support systems is designed to mitigate these risks. Such tools, along with daily reconnaissance and strict protocols, allow pilots to make instantaneous adjustments and ensure that errors which could complicate flight performance are rapidly addressed. This kind of systemic due diligence gives pilots and passengers peace of mind.

What I saw in my aviation days were systems that presented only the most critical elements needed for each moment of a flight in a precise, easy-to-understand display. There was no hunting through multiple screens or sifting through extraneous data points to find the essential elements needed at any given moment.

Thanks to this simplicity and ease of use, pilots are able to perform their duties with exacting precision even in the most intense, unpredictable situations—like those clinicians are facing on a daily basis with the COVID-19 crisis.

Health care lacks these mission-critical support systems

In my early 30s, I became a physician. And I quickly realized just how different health care was from my previous line of work.

At the time, the healthcare industry was lagging behind aviation when it came to maintaining a high degree of performance under extreme circumstances. Critical patient information was and still is often scattered across disconnected records and buried in isolated archives.

Health care and aviation are two professions that deal with equally high stakes—life and death—yet use completely different tools to handle them. Not enough attention has been paid to providing health care professionals with intelligent, well-integrated support systems—systems that would help them manage the extreme complexity and stress, especially that which we are experiencing with COVID-19.

The birth of the Medical Brain

Ultimately, I left my clinical practice. But the vast, gaping chasm between aviation technology and healthcare technology stuck with me.

I have spent much of my professional life bridging that gap by placing data-driven decision-support tools in the hands of clinicians and consumers. Our vision at healthPrecision was to create an intelligent digital platform that links all data sources and combs through them to form an accurate, updated picture of any clinical situation.

This vision led to the conception of Medical Brain—a tool built with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and extensive medical expertise.

Medical Brain actively searches all data sources, including EHRs and analyzes critical information often buried in free text, to identify health deterioration risks as well as gaps and errors in care. When detected, it notifies clinicians and patients and coordinates actions to remediate the situation.

Our focus on health care quality was inspired by my time in aviation. The aim is to reduce measurable “never” events—errors that are strongly associated with negative outcomes. These errors are very common in health care due to the industry’s high dependency on human work, which is deeply embedded in clinical processes.

Medical Brain has been in use over the last few years in acute and ambulatory care settings, helping providers and their patients navigate high-risk situations. By maintaining aviation-level quality (with alerts specificity >95% as our standard), busy clinicians have experienced lower alert fatigue and higher levels of clinical protocol compliance.

Thanks to this approach, significant reductions in “never” events have been achieved, in some places reaching >90% sustained reduction measured in regular reconnaissance analysis.

And then along came COVID-19…

The COVID-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented opportunity to utilize Medical Brain’s capabilities and performance.

Working together with our health care clients, we examined predicted hazards and considered multiple factors: excessive workforce stress, system and capacity shortages, and uncharted scientific territories.

First and foremost, we were asked to assist health care providers in performing their extraordinarily difficult jobs by embedding continuously updated COVID-19 content in the Medical Brain. In New York City, the original epicenter of the disease, we were asked to assist hospitals as well as public health and government employees.

Today, thousands of health care employees are communicating on a daily basis with the Medical Brain. It assists in determining COVID-19 risks based on accurate differential diagnosis—taking into account underlying health conditions, multivariate symptom analysis, and COVID-19 exposure—to determine if an employee would qualify to report to work, or if they might require home isolation and medical support.

Artificial (and emotional) intelligence matters

With the safety of health care workers and their families weighing heavily on their minds, provider stress levels reached an all-time high during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.2 , 3 , 4 , 5, 6, 7 We at healthPrecision saw a unique opportunity to provide the additional support needed to see providers through these unforeseen circumstances.

Placing reliable systems in the hands of clinicians has helped them deal with the stressors of an unknown, novel pandemic. Medical Brain acted as a control mechanism that helped clinicians maintain quality and mitigate risks so they could focus more on protecting patients. This is due in no small part to the sheer power and capacity of AI decision support.

An emotional support engine was also added to Medical Brain, offering on-demand conversation, coping support, and as-needed referrals. As always, rapid accuracy was the deciding factor in achieving user confidence and long-term stable adoption of this tool.

Clinicians are pilots, too

When pilots complete intense missions, reconnaissance closes the loop for risk control.

As James Fallows notes in his brilliant article recently published in The Atlantic, ‘‘Aviation is safe in large part because it learns from its disasters.’’ He asks, ‘‘How would this look in an NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] report?’’ He was referring to a post-pandemic review that most likely would never happen.8

Our ultimate aim at healthPrecision is to keep our workforce healthy and functioning at the levels required to control the COVID-19 pandemic by continuously supporting their physical, emotional, and professional practice needs.

We strive to achieve this by providing the healthcare industry with tools that possess the same level of intelligence and capability as those used in a precision-driven industry like aviation.

In the end, we still have much to learn from our experiences with this pandemic. Our health care professionals—and the patients we serve—deserve better.

 

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