University of Michigan Research Center to Pioneer New Patient
Analytics Solutions
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http://www.airstrip.com/
ARMONK, N.Y. & SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- (Business Wire)
AirStrip®
and IBM (NSYE:IBM)
today announced that AirStrip will work to develop a mobile monitoring
solution to help clinicians predict declining health in acute and
critically ill patients. IBM will provide the streaming analytics
technology which allows AirStrip’s solution to use data from numerous
data sources in real time.
The new solution, being co-developed by AirStrip with the University
of Michigan (U-M) Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care,
will bring together data from electronic medical records, body sensors
and other sources with predictive analytics
to create an AirStrip mobile Acute Care Early Warning System (mACEWS),
that ultimately could be used to provide critical health insights to
doctors’ mobile devices. The system will be designed by AirStrip and the
U-M Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC) to help
hospitals better manage acutely ill patients.
MCIRCC will pioneer the application of this technology with AirStrip by
developing the advanced analytics and testing its ability to identify
and predict a serious and unexpected complication called hemodynamic
decompensation, one of the most common causes of death for critically
ill or injured patients. MCIRCC researchers anticipate that the
resulting solution may provide the clinical decision support tool that
enables clinicians to identify patient risk factors for early
intervention. Early intervention can enhance critical care delivery,
improve patient outcomes, and reduce ICU admissions (according to
source). If successful, this clinical decision support tool created by
AirStrip and MCIRCC could transition beyond critical care into
comprehensive hospital-to-home care models.
“By mining multiple data streams, looking at real-time analytics and
applying our adaptive learning algorithms, we believe we can come up
with new computed vital signs that are even more valuable than the
signals we’re monitoring today,” said Kevin Ward, M.D., MCIRCC’s
executive director and professor of Emergency Medicine, U-M Medical
School. “Ultimately, we believe that clinical decision support solutions
coupled with our analytic methodologies could help us improve patient
outcomes while reducing overall costs in the healthcare system.”
The AirStrip mACEWS system will collect and translate structured and
unstructured data via the AirStrip
ONE® platform, and deliver real-time analytics on that data using IBM®
InfoSphere® Streams, an advanced analytic platform that can be used
in most any industry and with multiple types of data, that allows
customer-developedapplications to quickly ingest, analyze and
correlate millions of data points per second as they arrive from
thousands of real-time sources. The AirStripmACEWS system’s
resulting predictive care insights would then be ready for consumption
by clinicians who use AirStrip’s mobile applications on Apple, Android
and Windows devices.
“Predictive analytics have the potential to provide clinicians the
ability to see and take action on much more of the potentially available
data on their patients, and course-correct sooner when a complication
presents,” said Sean Hogan, vice president and general manager of IBM
Healthcare.
A tool such as the one being developed by AirStrip could also be applied
to patients being monitored both inside and outside the hospital to
detect clinical deterioration from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), diabetes, congestive heart failure, or other chronic diseases.
“With its ability to assimilate vast amounts of data and provide real
time analytics, IBM effectively complements AirStrip’s established
leadership position in mobile interoperability,” said Alan Portela, CEO
of AirStrip. “Our products hold the promise of measurably improving the
clinical, operational and financial bottom lines in healthcare,
delivering innovation that can measurably strengthen patient care while
addressing real-world challenges faced by providers.”
About AirStrip
AirStrip® (www.airstrip.com)
provides a complete, vendor- and data source-agnostic enterprise-wide
clinical mobility solution, which enables clinicians to improve the
health of individuals and populations. With deep clinical expertise and
strong roots in mobile technology and data integration, AirStrip is
empowering leading health systems globally as the industry continues to
evolve at a rapid pace. Based in San Antonio, Texas, AirStrip allows
health systems to unlock the full potential of their existing technology
investments with a complete mobility solution that provides access to
critical patient data across the care continuum. AirStrip is backed by
investments from Dignity Health, St. Joseph Health, the Gary and Mary
West Health Investment Fund, Sequoia Capital, Qualcomm, Inc., Leerink
Partners, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and the Wellcome Trust.
AirStrip’s base of visionary clients includes HCA, Texas Health
Resources, Tenet Healthcare, Dignity Health, St. Joseph Health and
Ardent Health Services. Follow AirStrip
• Blog: www.MobileHealthMatters.com
• Twitter: @AirStripmHealth
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/AirStrip
About IBM
Learn more about IBM Smarter Healthcare at ibm.com/smarterhealthcare
Learn more about IBM Smarter Care at ibm.com/smartercare
Learn more about IBM real-time analytics at http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/infosphere-streams
About MCIRCC
The University of Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical
Care (MCIRCC) is one of the world’s first comprehensive research
enterprises devoted to transforming critical care medicine by
accelerating science and moving it from bench to bedside. To do this,
MCIRCC brings together integrative teams comprised of world-class U-M
scientists, clinicians, and engineers with industry partners and funding
sources to develop and deploy cutting-edge solutions that elevate the
care, outcomes, and quality of life of critically ill and injured
patients and their families. Learn more at www.micircc.org.
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Contacts:
Airstrip Media Relations
Chris Lato, 608-219-7231
chrislato@airstrip.com
or
IBM
External Relations
Holli Haswell, 720-396-5485
hhaswell@us.ibm.com
or
MCIRCC
Media Relations
Kara Gavin, 734-764-2220
kegavin@umich.edu
Source: AirStrip
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