Next up, let’s take a look at our finalists in the category of ‘driving patient care’, highlighting organisations whose solutions are designed to improve patient outcomes and/or experiences.
Oakland University
Overview: Fakhare Alam, senior scientist at General Motors and researcher at Oakland University, proposes a fully automated knowledge graph tailored for different clinical domains.
Why? The integration of knowledge graphs and neuro-symbolic methods can offer “advanced capabilities” to interpret complex data and derive meaningful insights. However, Fakhare notes that existing frameworks for constructing knowledge graphs face challenges as they often rely on manual or semi-automated approaches and as such require substantial effort and expertise.
What happened? Fakhare’s work proposes a fully automated knowledge graph curation framework tailored for different clinical domains, which leverages concept extraction, semantic enrichment, optimised clustering using neuro-symbolic approaches and advanced neural network models. The framework aims to create knowledge graphs from “vast literature” on COVID-19 and cerebral aneurysms, with evaluation demonstrating “significant improvements over baseline models”. Ultimately, the approach aims to enable deeper understanding of patient data, leading to more accurate diagnoses, personalised treatment plans and improved outcomes.
Cross Country Healthcare
Overview: Cross Country Healthcare, a provider of workforce solutions, customised its flagship platform Intellify to suit client needs and drive patient care. Intellify is a talent management platform supported by business intelligence and provides increased workforce visibility and transparency through use of AI and data analytics.
Why? Cross Country identified a need to streamline talent acquisition and overcome challenges around integration with legacy systems, with the aim of improving staffing and having a positive impact on patient care.
What happened? Seeking to “achieve excellence”, Cross Country customised Intellify for clients with the provision of ad-hoc reporting and real-time dashboards which allowed leaders to make swift workforce decisions to support patient care and ultimately outcomes as well as improving staffing levels. The platform is currently deployed in 50 facilities with 500 users, and streamlines recruitment for 10,600 assignments nationwide. Looking to the future, Cross Country aims to achieve ongoing success through continuous training, updates and feedback mechanisms.
LunaJoy Health
Overview: Georgia-based health tech company LunaJoy Health is a provider of online women’s holistic mental health counselling and therapy, offering a range of services and recently launching integrated care programme LunaCare.
Why? LunaJoy Health offers online therapy for women of all ages and for areas including depression, anxiety, loss, infertility struggles, menopause and more. New programme LunaCare seeks to “epitomise collaboration”, providing a tech-driven platform designed to bridge primary care and mental health services by ensuring integration with both providers.
What happened? LunaJoy Health provides services such as mental health coaching, holistic psychotherapy and psychiatry. Services are supported by technology such as LunaSync, an integration solution designed to collect the electronic patient record systems of medical practices with LunaJoy’s telehealth platform; LunaClick, enabling EPRs to refer directly into LunaJoy’s services; and LunaScore, a solution utilising AI to deliver a “comprehensive assessment” of an individual’s current state and possible risks. Earlier this year LunaJoy announced that over $6.6 million in funding has been raised to back integrated programme LunaCare, with plans for the platform to focus particularly on maternal mental health.
