To save patients from extreme heat, a hospital turns to AI
AI can be used to comb by electronic health records and warns vulnerable people about dangerous threads
Tourists tried to escape the effects of a Wave Wave in Washington, DC, last week.
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Climate | When extreme heat Hits in the Boston area, emergency departments are wrapped by people who are experienced, experienced kidney or heart problems, or have heart cramps.
Today is a health care system serving 2.5 million patients across massachusetts turn artificial intelligence for assistance.
“Heat stress exacerbates conditions, and we can see a 10 percent jumping people in the emergency department not only heat painbut also weakness or syncope or other conditions due to heat, “said Paul Biddinger, Main Health Officer and continued academic system work in a new academic system to warn about people about Dangers of Heat Lakes.
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In February, MGB is one of five applicants to participate in a prevailing accelerator powered by IBM. The program seeks to help communities facing environmental and economic stress through technology. It receives more than 100 suggestions for how to use AI to improve climate and stability maintenance.
The idea is simple: use AI to comb Electronic health records to find patients with health conditions or take drugs that can be more defiled in heat. AI Program will warn them when a wave wave comes and tell patients how to protect themselves so that they do not end in an emergency room. The tool will include security features to protect patient information.
It’s good, the combination of personal information, high-hour heating data, and “action messages” helps to empower patients to protect themselves.
“We thought patients would give more attention if they were their doctor, their hospital saying, ‘Hey, you’re at risk and what they see in the news it’s going to get to the news tomorrow.
Heat kills an estimated 2,300 People every year in the United States, more than any kind of serious activity, and will result in hospitalization of thousands more. The numbers expected to be added as the changes in the turbochargares temperature, with an estimate calculated that emergency rounds can be filled with an additional 235,000 visitors every summer. The same report, In the center for American development, it is estimated that health care costs related to severe heat costs $ 1 billion per year.
General General Brigham offers training for doctors and nurses How climate change affect patients. Some more vulnerable patients with complex or overlapping medical conditions are assigned workers’ cases to discuss the risks.
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But the constant warning of patients is a high order for people to do themselves.
Patients with complex medical conditions are assigned care managers, which follow patients closer and see them before a heat wave whalls to “support their health.” But staff is not enough to reach all that there is a heart or state of kidney, or those whose households can have no air conditioning.
The AI Program is still enhanced, but bidding said he thought with a chatbot function, so patients might ask if they receive an alert.
“Our cares care physicians are mostly so few days, and we don’t want them to wait for their doctor when we can use the air conditioning where they can stay cool,” he said.
The AI Alert System is meant to be a pilot program so that technology can be developed by IBM for the next two years. If it works, it can be shared with other hospitals.
“It has not been developed as a profit-driven product. This is referred to as a community service also used in health centers to support their patients, too,” says Biddinger.
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