Althaia Collaborates With Robbie AI, an Artificial Intelligence System, to Prevent Falls in Frail Hospitalized Patients
July 26 2024 - 9:43AM
Business Wire
Collaboration achieves 0 falls during the last 3 months in its
trial units.
- Began as an R+D project carried out in collaboration with
Robbie AI to increase patient safety
- A pilot study was carried out over the last two years to
evaluate the effectiveness of the system
- The results of the pilot are very positive: falls have been
reduced by 90%
- During the last three months, zero falls have been achieved in
pilot units
The Althaia Foundation has an innovation and development project
underway to prevent falls in frail admitted patients, using
artificial intelligence. The study, which is being carried out in
collaboration with the company Robbie AI, makes it easier for
healthcare professionals to foresee any fall hazard situation and
act to prevent it from happening. In this way, safety is increased
for patients who, either due to age or functional capacity, are
considered at-risk. The results of the pilot study carried out to
evaluate its effectiveness are very positive, with falls reduced by
90% overall, and zero falls in these units during the last three
months.
Robbie AI is a fall prevention technology that uses real-time
computer vision. The solution, which is fully automated,
continuously analyzes patients' body movements and facial
expressions to predict risk situations and prevent patients from
falling. When a risk of falling is detected, the system sends
customizable alerts to the nursing team, with enough time to
prevent the fall.
For two years, a pilot study has been carried out in the Acute
Geriatrics Unit of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Manresa and in
the Long Stay Unit of the Hospital Center, to adjust the Robbie AI
workflow to the needs of the hospital’s nursing professionals and
to evaluate the effectiveness of the system. It has been a phase of
adaptation of the artificial intelligence algorithm that has been
trained according to the different types of alerts indicated by the
healthcare team.
This implementation of artificial intelligence at the Althaia
Foundation exemplifies how technology can be successfully used to
improve patient safety in hospital settings, and can serve as a
model for other health and social institutions.
100% reliable alerts
During the pilot study, an average of 16 alerts were sent per
day/bed and, for high-risk patients, an average of 26 alerts per
day/bed, with 100% reliability and less than 1% false positives.
The alerts indicate different actions that the patient performs
that can pose a danger, from getting out of bed and walking
erratically, to difficulties sitting in bed or in the chair, among
others.
The results of the pilot study show a 90% reduction in fall
situations, with an average of 60 seconds in response time and 100
meters of distance between professionals and the patient.
It should be noted that the system had been trained and tested
with more than 2 billion images and 10,000 patients from different
centers. Robbie AI's architecture, deployed on Nvidia Jetson's Edge
Artificial Intelligence platform, allows the removal of patient
images and data to ensure maximum privacy.
In this pilot, "one of the most conclusive results has been the
low number of false positives. Robbie AI is the only solution that
intelligently distinguishes a real risk of falling, and this is
crucial for the nursing team that manages many daily alerts," says
Bartomeu Ayala, head of Social and Health Innovation at the Althaia
Foundation and member of the Steering Committee of the Health and
Artificial Intelligence Program of the Generalitat de
Catalunya.
"Althaia's commitment to patient safety makes them an ideal
partner for Robbie AI," says Karen Marquez, CEO and co-founder of
Robbie AI. "Their continued efforts to refine fall prevention
workflows with Robbie AI's solution have allowed us to achieve
results that can be extended to other centers."
About the Althaia Foundation
Althaia is a private non-profit foundation that provides
comprehensive health care in Central Catalonia. Its mission is to
offer health and social services, as well as the research and
teaching derived from them, with quality and efficiency, and within
the framework of an organization focused on people and respect for
their values and dignity.
It is a concerted entity that is part of the comprehensive
public health system of Catalonia (SISCAT). It currently has 407
acute hospitalisation beds, 26 home hospitalisation beds, 60
private beds and 84 dependency care beds. As a university hospital,
teaching, research, knowledge transfer and innovation are strategic
priorities for its future development.
About Robbie AI
Robbie AI is addressing the $1 trillion patient safety market,
through its True Predictive AI. Its first application tackles one
of healthcare’s largest and most challenging problems: preventing
patient falls, fall-related injuries and deaths. Falls in hospitals
and nursing homes cost the global health system more than $250
billion annually and are one of the leading causes of reduced
quality of life and death in older adults.
Robbie AI’s technology has been developed through an intensive
R+D project of more than 7 years, under a research grant that was
part of Horizon 2020, a flagship initiative of the EU government to
address the most critical challenges of society.
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