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Case study 5: Predicting worsening health status within populations

While employed by Medscheme, Cristina and Stefan were part of a 3-person team who won the inaugural Starfield Award presented at the 2014 Johns Hopkins ACG System® conference. This was awarded for our work on developing a predictive model to identify individuals within populations with emerging health risks 5-10 years earlier than ordinarily would take […]

Case study 4: Provider profiling in low income countries with limited data

Services performed Bespoke clinical grouper Case-mix adjustment for fair comparison of healthcare facilities and providers Interactive dashboards summarising provider services for decision-support Outlier hospital event detection  Client Liberty Health provides health insurance to clients across 27 countries in Africa.  Challenges  The health insurance industry in Africa is challenged by paper healthcare claims, a lack of […]

Case study 3: Abnormality detection in chest x-rays

Challenge The developing world is facing a severe shortage of radiologists.  Proposed solution We believe that AI, especially when deployed to work alongside clinicians, is critical to solving this public health crisis. To this end, we have implemented a deep neural network that is able to accurately detect evidence of pneumonia and other abnormalities from […]

Case study 2: Text extraction and categorisation of doctor – patient mobile chat data in Spanish

Services performed Text summarisation and medical concept extraction using natural language processing techniques Development of a user interface whereby the original chat text is supplemented with a colour-coded overlay on top of the original text highlighting important medical phrases identified, allowing for an at-a-glance overview of important concepts in the original context Client Curatech is […]

Case study 1: Real-time patient risk stratification

Services performed Population health management consulting Development of bespoke risk stratification model using a combination of clinical domain knowledge and unsupervised machine learning Interactive visual analytics Client BrandMed is a connected health company in South Africa which owns an ecosystem of Bluetooth enabled wearable devices and point-of-care pathology machines. Readings from these devices and pathology […]