ROCHESTER, NY (August 9, 2018) – VisualDx, the leading diagnostic clinical decision support tool for physicians, today announced it has been awarded a grant from the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) to conduct research related to artificial intelligence for point-of-care diagnostics during space travel. TRISH has a cooperative agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
VisualDx, headquarted in Rochester, NY, is used in more than 2,300 hospitals and large clinics globally – including all VA hospitals and several military facilities. By combining machine learning and vision science with structured clinical data and clinical question sets, crew members can enter patient specific findings to build custom differentials and view images, treatment recommendations and management information.
Through its agreement with NASA, TRISH funds transformative health technologies to predict, protect and preserve astronaut physical and mental wellness during space missions. TRISH put out a call for proposals earlier in 2018 for a commercially available or viable computer-based algorithm that could facilitate the diagnoses of medical conditions that may require treatment during these long missions.
“In order to overcome the space hurdles, on-board medical diagnostic systems need to either provide user-guidance capabilities or minimize training time by being exceptionally intuitive and easy to use,” said Dr. Art Papier, co-founder and CEO of VisualDx. “We’ve been doing exactly that for non-specialist healthcare providers across the globe since 2001, so the bulk of development work needed for this project has been done. In fact, if we look at our platform now, it can diagnose 89 percent of the medical conditions required for space exploration. Our team is looking forward to being able to develop the ability to diagnose the remaining conditions over the next year.”
Using its proprietary technology, VisualDx was selected for the TRISH grant to create a stand-alone version of its platform that will allow for use with no required internet connection.
“Due to the reduced in-flight medical care, telemedicine support, supplies and large equipment, definitive medical care is not feasible on deep spaceflight missions,” said Emmanuel Urquieta Ordonez, M.D., M.S., senior research portfolio manager at TRISH. “Early on in the proposal review process, our team felt that VisualDx was a natural fit for the research program given the proprietary medical knowledge base it has built in the past decade to help better inform diagnoses from non-specialists across the globe. We look forward to the team’s outcome.”
TRISH funding will allow investigators one year to conduct in-depth research that will focus on the improvement of current technology for translation into care for long-duration space flights.
For more information contact:
Kim Montinarello
Marketing Manager, VisualDx
585.272.2662
kmontinarello@visualdx.com
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