Israeli company Sight Diagnostic’s Sight OLO blood diagnostics device. Photo: Sight Diagnostics via Facebook.
CTech – Sight Diagnostics, an Israeli company that delivers lab-grade Full Blood Count (FBC) results in just a few minutes, has deployed its Sight OLO solution at the John Radcliffe Hospital, part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation. The deployment means that patients who attend the emergency departments have access to quick FBC testing as part of a rapid AI triage system for Covid-19.
Sight OLO helps with faster predictions to be made by CURIAL AI, a screening test developed by Oxford University that leverages the routine vital signs of patients alongside FBC results to determine the likelihood of a patient having Covid-19. The CURIAL algorithm was developed by Oxford University and has proven to be effective in ruling out the possibility of Covid-19 within patients in the first hour, as opposed to the 12-28 hour timeframe offered by Polymerase Chain Reaction
It uses clinical information routinely available within the first hour of coming to hospital. Results of the CURIAL study show that the AI test correctly predicted the Covid-19 status of 92.3 per cent of patients coming to A&E departments at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury during a two-week test period. The screening test was developed by infectious disease and clinical machine learning experts at the University of Oxford. Compared against results of laboratory swab testing, the CURIAL AI screening test correctly ruled-out COVID-19 97.6 per cent of the time. However, whereas swab testing typically takes 24 hours, the AI screening test offers rapid results using data that is already routinely available within one hour.
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A screening test conducted on patients arriving at the Emergency departments of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury has been found to accurately predict the COVID-19 status of 92.3% of patients within the first hour of coming to hospital. Using data from clinical information routinely available (blood tests and vital signs), the two-week CURIAL study(1) found the Artificial Intelligence test correctly ruled-out COVID-19 97.6% of the time when compared against results of PCR laboratory swab testing, which typically takes 24 hours.
An infectious disease research team led by Dr Andrew Soltan, an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (Cardiology) at the John Radcliffe Hospital, joined fellow experts at the AI for Healthcare lab of Professor David Clifton, within Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering and also Professor David Eyre of the Oxford Big Data Institute to develop the test which was initiated in Ma
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