CanadaHealthcare and life sciences2024 – ongoingHero AI
AI triage for psychiatry consults in the emergency department
Hero AI reports 55% shorter waits for mental-health crisis patients at SickKids
Problem
Emergency patients in mental health crisis waited six to eight hours for a consultant to come in.
Approach
Toronto startup Hero AI built its platform on Azure with Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI. At The Hospital for Sick Children, AI modelling and decision logic decide whether a patient needs a psychiatry consult.
Results
Takeaway
Hero AI reported that using AI to assess the need for a psychiatry consult reduced patient waits by 55%. The CEO says the hospital gained 200 hours of room capacity in six months.
Categories
- Size
- Small business
- Industry
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Product and service innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AIPredictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Vendor's case study
Sources
Source summaries
Microsoft profiles a Toronto healthcare startup and its use at a children's hospital. It reported shorter wait times and added emergency room capacity.
Full details are in the original sources.
