HBI Deals+Insights / Digital and AI

Big data is being applied in hospitals to identify at-risk patients

Sao Joao Hospital in Portugal, a 1,000 bed public hospital, has been running a big data programme with a data warehouse which has built a library of 560 billion datapoints. AI bots have now reached the level where they can monitor the vital signs of patients and calculate the likelihood that they will have to go to ICU, said José Pedro Almeida, Director of Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning, speaking at HIMSS 2018.