How can we empower the healthcare system to meet growing demand while increasing the quality of care?
AI has disruptive potential as it unlocks capabilities of the healthcare system through a data driven approach. AI can automate tasks, increase efficiency and gather insights to make better decisions. These capabilities enable labour-supporting/saving and facilitate appropriate care.
Our first solution, the software suite Pacmed Critical focuses on the ICU. It brings these strengths of AI to the bedside through a clinical intelligence layer on three levels:
- the ward: manage the ward to optimise the use of personnel to give attention to all the patients in the ward
- the patient: monitor patients and predict possible complications, deterioration and long term outcomes
- the organ system: give the patient the best possible treatment to restore function
On these three layers multiple modules are active:
- Medical decision support per organ system (such a respiratory support)
- Discharge decision support
- Patient summaries
- Capacity predictor
- and much more to come >2025
Together these modules have a significant impact on the quality of care, accessibility and job satisfaction on the ICU and can lead to significant cost reductions:
Quality of Care:
Pacmed Critical improves the quality of ICU care by decreasing patient length of stay, leading to faster recovery through timely discharges and prevention of harmful complications. It helps avoid unnecessary readmissions by allowing patients with predicted deteriorations to stay longer for close monitoring. In future applications, the platform can facilitate value-based healthcare by preventing non-beneficial ICU admissions, ensuring that patients receive appropriate and tailored care when they need it most.
Accessibility of ICU Services:
Pacmed’s AI-driven platform enhances ICU accessibility by reducing the time staff spend on administrative tasks, such as looking up information, planning, and documentation, through automation. It helps prevent over- and understaffing by predicting future workload, allowing better scheduling and resource allocation. Additionally, the platform enables the use of function differentiation within the ICU by predicting the "zorgzwaarte" (care intensity) per patient, making it easier to allocate the right care to the right professional based on patient needs.
Cost Reduction:
By increasing the productivity of ICU staff, Pacmed helps hospitals do more with the same resources. This includes preventing revenue losses by optimizing bed use and staff productivity, as well as freeing up personnel to take on other tasks within the hospital. The AI platform enables hospitals to manage higher patient volumes without proportionally increasing staffing levels, helping to contain or reduce costs while maintaining high standards of care.
Job Satisfaction:
Pacmed improves job satisfaction for healthcare professionals by automating repetitive administrative tasks, giving them more time for meaningful patient care. Additionally, the platform empowers staff by providing data-driven insights that enhance their control over medical decisions, scheduling, and other important aspects of ICU management, contributing to a more engaging and rewarding work environment.