MEDICATION & RESEARCH Digital Revolution
Philip Daffas, CEO and Managing Director at PainChek, the world’s first intelligent pain assessment tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse micro-facial expressions indicative of pain. Here, he explains the important role tech plays – and will continue to play - in enabling the delivery of better health outcomes for care home residents.
“AI has the potential to become a
clinical decision support tool to help healthcare professionals evaluate patient risk, such as
of a patient developing a particular disease.”
It is a daily challenge for carers and healthcare professionals to assess pain in people living with dementia or other cognitive impairments. Approximately 80% of people living with dementia in care homes experience pain, but research suggests that 50% goes undetected or untreated, which oſten leads to unnecessary prescribing, behavioural and psychological issues and decreased quality of life for residents.
Both private care providers and local authority-owned homes recognise the need for innovation, particularly with regards to supporting people living with cognitive impairment, but will oſten turn to the same paper-based tools to assess pain in residents. These methods can be difficult to implement, time- consuming, and subjective, which can have an adverse impact on the quality of care delivered, as well as operational efficiency and compliance, which affects staff confidence and morale.
PainChek was developed as an effective solution to these issues. Its unique combination of automated facial-analysis
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technology and smart automation enables carers and healthcare professionals to identify the presence of pain when pain isn’t obvious, to quantify the severity of pain and monitor the impact of treatment to optimise and evidence overall quality of care.
Indeed, AI-powered technology can play a critical role in facilitating better health outcomes for care home residents. Point-of-care recording and powerful reporting reduces the administrative burden compared to paper-based systems and equips carers with information to better care for residents while meeting requirements of CQC regulators regarding auditing and personalising care. Moreover, the collection of data allows for broader and more accurate analysis of issues affecting the entire care home population. PainChek’s data portal allows individual care homes, care home groups and councils alike to identify the ’pain burden’ across their entire facility or estate, and therefore evaluate how well pain is being managed. This can also deliver cost savings: because pain
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