In southeast England, patients discharged from a group of hospitals serving 500,000 people are being fitted with a Wi-Fi-enabled armband that remotely monitors vital signs such as respiratory rate, oxygen levels, pulse, blood pressure, and body temperature.
The Health Care Benefits of Combining Wearables and AI
The former can collect data, the latter can sift through it.
May 28, 2019
Summary.
There’s enormous interest in applying AI to nearly every area of healthcare. But not every application of AI in healthcare will produce similar benefits. One area that stands to benefit most is remote monitoring of large numbers of people. Wearable devices can transmit volumes of clinical data – blood pressure, respiratory rate, oxygen levels, pulse, blood pressure, and body temperature. But sifting through it all in real time and knowing who needs intervention is beyond human ability. AI however can easily do this. AI pilots are now being run the UK National Health Service, Mt. Sinai, Grady Hospital in Atlanta, and elsewhere to alert patients and physicians when health care interventions that might have been missed otherwise are needed.