Iodine Software

Patient Triage and Escalation Support Tool (P-TEST)
Triage support tool designed to better predict at-risk patients for significant pulmonary challenges, ICU admission, and respirator or ECMO support

COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm ICU’s and lead to respirator and ECMO shortages. In response, Iodine Software is marshaling its machine learning capabilities to help hospitals intervene early and reduce demand for these scarce resources.

To better support healthcare organizations fighting COVID-19, our innovation team members applied their machine learning and artificial intelligence expertise to our more than 15 million inpatient admissions database to develop a new triage support tool designed to better predict at-risk patients for significant pulmonary challenges, ICU admission, and respirator or ECMO support.

First, we are identifying patients with a rapidly increasing likelihood to face a significant pulmonary challenge. Combined with our existing ability to predict patients with relevant comorbidities (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, existing respiratory disease, and hypertension), we can identify patients with climbing risk early enough to intervene, treat, and ideally avoid the need for scarce critical care services.

To help plan better for developing future needs, we are also developing the capability to identify patients with escalating risks that might need ICU admission or respirator or ECMO support.

With these patients identified, Iodine Software hopes to help physicians (hospitalists, pulmonary specialists, critical care specialists) and care management teams better mitigate and manage the need for the critical care services which may be put under stress in the coming weeks. This new, complimentary workflow tool will be available in early April to both new and existing clients and will be free of charge.