GermanyHealthcare and life sciences2025 – ongoingUniversity Hospital Essen
AI detection of pulmonary embolism with smartwatch alerts
Essen's AI sent a radiologist a smartwatch alert about a pulmonary embolism
Problem
A dangerous pulmonary-artery finding on a CT scan required prompt clinical attention.
Approach
The hospital's AI institute developed an application that detected pulmonary embolism in CT scans and notified clinicians. During an interview, radiologist Felix Nensa received an alert on his smartwatch. The report said the notification enabled prompt treatment.
Results
No published figures
Takeaway
The application connected image detection to a clinician notification. No measured treatment-time reduction was disclosed.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Computer vision
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Press reporting
Sources
Source summaries
Christian Weymayr reported an AI alert arriving during his interview with Nensa. The report connected the alert to prompt patient treatment but gave no quantitative clinical evaluation.
Full details are in the original sources.
