INTRODUCING RicovAI-19: THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM ALMAWAVE AT THE SERVICE OF HEALTH CARE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID

INTRODUCING RicovAI-19: THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM ALMAWAVE AT THE SERVICE OF HEALTH CARE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID

Apr 09, 2021

Almawave, a leading Italian company in Artificial Intelligence (AI), natural language analysis and Big Data services, introduces RicovAI-19, a project launched this week in the municipal territory of Offagna (AN), thanks to the collaboration between the Ancona Riuniti Hospital, Polytechnic University of the Marche, ASUR Marche and the companies Vivisol and Aditech. This is a pilot feasibility study (non-pharmacological interventional) and clinical experimentation in which Artificial Intelligence concretely supports patients, doctors and hospitals on multiple levels in the complex challenge of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and in prospective applicability to the diagnosis and prognosis of various other diseases.

The AI technologies developed for this project from Almawave allows the real-time analysis of multiple clinical parameters in users positive with Covid symptoms (body temperature, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and respiratory rate). It also allows the Clinical Stability indicators to be calculated and the results promptly sent to the doctors. The latter will remotely conduct all the subsequent assessments, make the diagnosis and prescribe any care and initiatives to manage each case. All of this takes place free of charge, thanks to a portable device used with a cell phone and a dedicated app. The instrumentation is made available to patients free of charge, thanks to the investments made by Almawave and the collaboration of the other partners.

The goal of RicovAI-19, in addition to reducing Emergency Room traffic, is to rethink remote medical assistance and the territorial health care model in general.

'Artificial Intelligence is ready to confirm its status as a strategic ally for our lives, even more so in a setting like our current one', said Valeria Sandei, Almawave Chief Executive Officer. 'After years of efforts, research and investments in advanced technologies to apply in the health care area as well, we are pleased to be a fundamental part of concrete pilot clinical experimentation like RicovAI- 19. Working side by side with our engineers and a health care professional like professor Marco Mazzanti, Scientific Director of the Study, allowed us to fine tune an innovative system, capable of perfectly integrating the evolutions of the scientific and technological world with the territorial health care needs. A sensor concretely detects multiple values in the symptomatic patient, such as body temperature, blood pressure and oxygen saturation. These are communicated to a special app. In real time, the Almawave AI engine interprets all the data and information, calculating the clinical stability indicator and making it available to the doctors, who are responsible for the clinical, treatment and assessment actions based on the needs of each individual patient. We are confident that in the near future, this model can be applied in multiple health care areas, providing an increasingly more strategic value at the service of citizens and doctors.'

The project anticipates the participation by Offagna residents in RicovAI-19. Adult citizens, based on the recommendation of their doctor, will be able to receive the instrumentation (Multi-parameter Devices) for independent monitoring - from home - by going to a location made available by the Municipality. Here, they will receive an explanation on how to use the app with relative sending of the results from an initial 'test' monitoring to the system for processing by Almawave. This will obviously be the procedure in cases where the clinical condition of the patient does not require different urgent attention.

The initiative has already been granted special authorization by the Ancona Riuniti Hospital Ethics Committee.

'One of the goals of the pilot scientific study', says Dr. Marco Mazzanti, Scientific Director of RicovAI-19, already on the front line in the London Barts Heart Centre and Ancona Riuniti hospitals and working on other fronts implementing AI Health with Almawave, 'is to monitor the appropriateness of hospital access, so that it only takes place when necessary, in addition to obviously understanding how much Artificial Intelligence can be useful in monitoring the health condition of patients.' In fact, according to Dr. Mazzanti, 'In the feasibility study, it will be the doctor who supervises the AI application, confirming the data and personally verifying the quality of the predictive indicators provided by the system. The procedure, which creates a relationship between the computer system that supports decisions with the doctor's supervision, allows for greater accuracy of the treatment.'

'The doctor', Mazzanti concludes, 'is thereby able to simultaneously follow the clinical condition of multiple patients, focusing attention on the most critical. This way, virtuous coordination is launched between the territory, the reference hospital and the doctor, who remains the spearhead at the service of the community. This collaboration is made possibly by the ease of use of the digital applications fine tuned by Almawave so that RicovAI-19 is a useful, reliable and easy-to-use system for the citizen.'

The experimentation will last a total of 6 months, but it will immediately provide useful results for doctors and researchers.

INTRODUCING RicovAI-19: THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM ALMAWAVE AT THE SERVICE OF HEALTH CARE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID
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