Stocastic’s TriageGO is used as an integral part of the triage process at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and the ED at Howard County General Hospital, which together serve approximately 200,000 patient visits annually. I’m here. (Submitted photo)
Clinical diagnostics company Beckman Coulter Diagnostics announced Friday that it has acquired StoCastic LLC, a Johns Hopkins-born artificial intelligence company that provides evidence-based decision support for hospital emergency departments.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Stocastic’s TriageGO is used as an integral part of the triage process at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and the ED at Howard County General Hospital, which together serve approximately 200,000 patient visits annually. I’m here.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, who founded the digital health company Stocastic, thought they had developed an effective artificial intelligence tool that could help emergency department nurses determine the best course of action for patients coming into the hospital. . But a few years ago he saw Stocastic’s TriageGO in action with Johns Hopkins’ ED, and it was the first time they felt warranted.
Christina DeMur, head of the technology development team at Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures (JHTV), said the biggest challenge for many digital and software technology companies is being able to demonstrate the real-world applicability of their technology. says. Stocastic not only had the data, she said, but leveraged the resources available at Johns Hopkins.
TriageGO is integrated into the patient’s digital health record. The nurse asks for information about the patient’s condition and measures vital signs. The data, combined with the patient’s medical history, is run through Stocastic’s AI algorithms to predict the patient’s risk for several acute outcomes, triage her level of care, recommend and explain decisions. do. All done in seconds. The nurse then assigns the triage level.
Scott Levin, associate professor of emergency medicine, co-founded Stocastic with Eric Hamlock in 2017. Eric Hamrock worked as a medical administrator at Howard County General Hospital before working full time with Stocastic. Jeremiah Hinson, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Hopkins University and Director of the Data Science Center for Emergency Medicine, is Stocastic’s Chief Medical Officer. Team through JHTV he joined the I-Corps program. Levin hailed this as the “wake-up” for the startup.
TriageGo will be used at Sibley Memorial Hospital starting this month. The system is also in use at hospitals in Florida and Connecticut, and will soon be in use at several hospitals in Missouri.
