HealthTech: AI that reads clinical notes | shortening extubation times | Cleveland Clinic Innovations

June 16, 2021

Realyze Intelligence is an artificial intelligence (AI) company that provides a clinical intelligence platform that “reads” the detailed clinical notes in patients’ EMRs. The platform can help clinicians pair patients with the treatment that is likely to benefit them most. The company was launched through UPMC Enterprises in Pittsburgh.

D. Geoffrey Vince, Ph.D., the newly appointed executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, discusses his top priorities, the initiatives he’s most excited about and why he thinks Cleveland is poised to be the place to go to for advancing healthcare discoveries via AI.

A nursing research committee at Duke University Hospital’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit has developed an approach for extubating heart patients within six hours after heart surgery. Doing so within the six-hour window helps lower adverse outcomes while shortening ICU stays and lowering costs.

Indy-based OpalGenix has developed a clinical decision support platform to gauge opioid risk in patients. Each person responds to opioids differently based on genetics and clinical factors. The GPS-Opioid tool assesses each patient’s risk of opioid adverse effects and then personalizes opioid selection and dosing to maximize pain relief.

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