IBM and partners using AI and Big Data to enable heart failure diagnosis one to two years in advance

Briefing

IBM and partners using AI and Big Data to enable heart failure diagnosis one to two years in advance

April 17, 2017

Briefing

  • AI-Enabled Diagnosis – IBM Research, Sutter Health, and Geisinger Health System training machine learning models to extract information from health electronic health records and doctor's notes and predict heart failure
  • Earlier Discovery – Can enable earlier heart failure diagnosis, potentially one to two years in advance, compared to typical assessment procedures where patients are usually diagnosed after hospitalization and when organ already experienced irreversible and progressive damage
  • Model Training – Learning from electronic health records of 10,000 people as well as unstructured data from doctor’s notes
  • Heart Failure Statistics – Heart failure rates expected to increase 46% by 2030, with half dying within five years of diagnosis
  • NIH grant – Funded with $2 million research grant from National Institutes of Health

Accelerator

Sector

Healthcare/Health Sciences, Information Technology

Organization

Geisinger Health System, IBM Research Inc., Sutter Health

Source

Original Publication Date

April 5, 2017

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