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Apollo Hospitals extends access to AI decision-making tool across India

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India (Commonwealth Union)_ Apollo Hospitals’ AI-powered clinical decision support tool is now accessible to physicians across India. The hospital network introduced the Apollo Clinical Intelligence Engine (CIE) a year ago. It is a self-learning engine that studies the symptoms, identifies causes, and assists in recommending the best course of treatment. The technology, which is developed, maintained, and occasionally analyzed by an internal team of 500 plus doctors and specialists at Apollo, has the capacity to evaluate vast amounts of data.

Additionally, the novel technology currently has more than 1,300 conditions and 800 symptoms to help discover patterns that may be missed by manual diagnosis. Developed with hospital data spanning four decades, the CIE is hailed as one of the world’s largest networked health data lakes. In 2022 alone, the platform analyzed approximately 600,000 clinical study outcomes and remains a major growth area in the medical industry. Designed specifically for the South Asian population, the CIE is now made available to doctors outside Apollo Hospitals through the Apollo 24|7 platform.

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The decision to make the CIE accessible to physicians outside of Apollo Hospitals was taken as it had demonstrated rapid concrete benefits in diagnosis, physician productivity, and patient happiness following its introduction some months ago. According to Sangita Reddy, joint managing director at Apollo Hospitals, over 4,000 Apollo doctors have witnessed a considerable improvement in their diagnosis outcomes using the technology, which has also become a part of their routine OPD operations.

Dr Prathap C. Reddy, Apollo Hospitals Chairman, expressed delight over sharing the technology. He said, “The CIE cannot be restricted to Apollo but has to be shared with doctors across India. I am therefore happy to offer the Apollo CIE to every qualified, practicing physician in India. I am sure that together, we will be able to make Indians healthier with timely and more accurate diagnosis, independent of geographical, regional or income divides”.

The CIE is one of Apollo Hospitals’ most recent developments in medical AI during the past few years. The hospital network launched the Apollo Cardiovascular Disease Risk tool in 2021, which was built using patient data from the previous decade. This AI technology has been incorporated into ConnectedLife’s platform, allowing it to provide continuous, longitudinal wellness and health data in near real-time. The hospital chain has also ventured into mixed-reality technology in order to improve patient education. Last year, it launched the Apollo ProHealthDeepX, which uses the Microsoft HoloLens 2 to show how a patient’s risk factors for CVD affect their heart. It also generates their cardiac risk score using the same AI CVD risk tool.

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Sangita Reddy added, “The launch of the game-changing Apollo Clinical Intelligence Engine is a major milestone for us at Apollo Hospitals. When we empowered Apollo doctors with CIE in OPDs a few months back, we noticed a tangible improvement in the accuracy of diagnosis, doctor productivity, and patient satisfaction”. She continued, “Currently, more than 4000 Apollo doctors are using it and have seen a considerable impact on their diagnosis outcomes; it has become a part of their routine OPD operations. We are committed to using technology to improve the healthcare experience for patients and physicians, and the Apollo CIE is a proof of that commitment.”

The Apollo CIE also enhances the scale of operation for healthcare providers by enabling organizations to meet the multi-channel need for access to safe, clinically validated health interactions through the Symptom Checker and physicians armed with this expert clinical knowledge system. Apollo CIE examines the user’s symptoms to find the underlying reason and recommends the optimal next steps. The CIE is a self-learning engine that provides doctors with access to enormous amounts of knowledge, allowing them to stay updated. In the past year alone, the CIE has been able to process almost 6,000,000 new developments due to the publication of clinical papers.

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