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Patient Care Innovations by Intel® Liftoff's Healthtech Startups

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HealthTech startups from Intel® Liftoff are utilizing the capabilities of generative AI to address diverse medical conditions, from mental health to lifestyle diseases.

Recognizing the critical importance of time in patient outcomes, these HealthTech startups use the full might of AI technologies and automation, significantly speeding up challenging processes and potentially saving lives. Beyond time efficiency, collaborations between healthcare entities, health coaches, and AI startups hold the promise of cost reduction, extending proper patient care to a broader demographic.

Intel® Liftoff Startups in HealthTech emerge as a catalyst, empowering healthcare companies and care teams to revolutionize healthcare practices.

CLOUD CONSTABLE: Subject Expert User Interface in Healthcare


The Medical Dilemma

Patient privacy and accurate information are critical in healthcare. The current challenge is the lack of streamlined systems to address service inquiries, hindering interactions when practitioners are occupied. An innovative solution is urgently needed to revolutionize healthcare interactions by ensuring seamless and confidential engagement with patients and caregivers regarding services like hearing tests and treatments.

 

The Remedy

Cloud Constable's AVA solution is  a fully customizable subject expert poised to transform healthcare interactions. Initially deployed as a receptionist in a hearing clinic, this cutting-edge system addresses patient inquiries about services, including hearing tests and treatments, during practitioners' busy schedules. Future enhancements include appointment checks, wait time guidance, and appointment scheduling. This innovative approach, leveraging the Intel® Developer Cloud, ensures patient privacy, information accuracy, and opens avenues for automation in primary care, promising significant time savings for both patients and practitioners.

 

Aleph Innovations: Optimizing Healthcare Scheduling and Referrals

 

The Medical Dilemma

The healthcare industry annually loses billions due to inaccurate referrals and scheduling inefficiencies. Care-providing institutions face $175.5 billion in losses from inaccurate referrals, while hospitals alone lose an additional $191.9 billion annually due to scheduling inefficiencies. Addressing these challenges is crucial for optimizing healthcare resource allocation and efficiency.
Despite the highest per-person healthcare spending among developed nations, the U.S. contends with subpar patient outcomes. System inefficiencies, especially in scheduling and referrals, worsen the healthcare crisis.

 

The Remedy

Aleph Innovations optimizes healthcare with centralized, automated scheduling and referral services. Integrating machine learning ensures quick, accurate patient-provider matches, achieving a 97% accuracy on binary disease classification. Beyond efficiency, Aleph's commitment to global healthcare access drives ongoing research, including computational physiology applications.

Aleph Innovations’ AI-powered scheduling and referrals suite, Nexus, streamlines patient flow and enhances care pathways by analyzing conditions and directly scheduling patients with suitable providers.

The collaboration between Aleph Innovations and Intel® Liftoff plays a role in their achievements. Daniel Tcheurekdjian, CEO of Aleph Innovations, takes pride in being an active member of the Intel® Liftoff program: "Working with Intel® supercharges our ability to maintain the complex continuous deployment workflows integral to AI in healthcare, allowing us to rapidly address edge-case failures and efficiently process new data, ensuring we’re always providing services that patients can trust."

 

AfyaRekod: Mobilizing Patient Health Records:

 

The Medical Dilemma

Accessing and mobilizing patient health records pose challenges, impacting productivity and preventing patients from managing their own health effectively.

 

The Remedy

AfyaRekod, offers a remote patient management platform that enables secure data mobility. Empowering patients and healthcare providers alike, the company employs AI and machine learning-driven digital tools for a patient-centered system. The outcome is heightened productivity and personalized care, marking a transformative step toward a more efficient and responsive healthcare experience.

 

FIVEBRANE: Dependable Medical AI

 

The Medical Dilemma

AI adoption in healthcare faces formidable obstacles, Gartner reports a 60-85%failure rate due to a combination of high costs, unreliable models, and complex data challenges. Sensitivity of medical data, the need for expert interpretation, and access limitations compound these difficulties

 

The Remedy

FiveBrane's end-to-end platform streamlines medical imaging in generative AI solutions. It reduces dataset sizes, cutting reliance on care teams’ resources by 60% using intrinsic AI models. Overcoming data barriers, remote training unlocks diverse datasets, ensuring predictable costs through advanced analytics. This collaborative platform democratizes AI development, partnering with healthcare entities and tech companies for accessible, reliable solutions to improve patient outcomes.

 

Key Takeaways

 

AI already plays a pivotal role in addressing challenges in the vast landscape of healthcare throughout patient care stages, from diagnosis to drug delivery. HealthTech startups from the Intel® Liftoff program showcase how AI can provide groundbreaking solutions, reduce inefficiencies, and eliminate access barriers. They demonstrate that technological integration doesn't compromise personalization; instead, it enhances personalized care, empowering patients to actively navigate their health journey.

 Are you working on an AI solution that could have a major impact on healthcare? Intel® Liftoff for AI Startups offers the tools and guidance you need in the early days, from advanced infrastructure to hands-on mentorship. Apply to the program today.

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