Intermountain Health expands monitoring to include AI with CareCentra
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:04 AM CDT, Wed June 5, 2024
NEW YORK – Intermountain Health has expanded its partnership with CareCentra to include remote monitoring of patients with COPD and adult asthma to better detect symptom exacerbation and intervene earlier. CareCentra's prevention-as-a-service platform will monitor distal signs of risk using a framework of data points and biometrics from digital devices and patient reported information, in combination with their unique proprietary algorithms. “By leveraging digital health approaches that use behavior science in combination with AI/Machine Learning (ML) models, we not only sense distal risk, but we also help shape patient behaviors to manage that risk at home,” said Vasant Kumar, CEO, CareCentra. "We're creating an early warning system -a sort of 'check engine' light - to keep patients out of the hospital.” CareCentra’s AI will respond to early risk signals by coaching patients on proper inhalation technique for optimal medication delivery, alerting patients to environmental risks and helping to remove barriers for medication adherence, and prompting a range of lifestyle behaviors that can improve outcomes. When the AI senses that risk of exacerbation is too high to be managed through the technology or through behavioral changes, it sends an alert to the Pulmonary Disease Navigator team of registered respiratory therapists for care coordination with the patient's primary care provider and intervention, keeping the care team connected 24/7.
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