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is effectively identified, it can be treated appropriately and efficiently, in turn decreasing the prospect of having to move residents showing persistent signs of pain and distress to a more costly, higher acuity setting.
While artificial intelligence is sometimes seen as taking away the human touch, the opposite is true of PainChek. It has still retained the active involvement of carers in the process by not replacing human interaction with the resident. In this way, AI complements the workforce by assisting care professionals in putting into practice the skills and knowledge that it is unable to replace, such as creativity, communication, and critical thinking.
PainChek is a hybrid system and uses AI to objectively assess the presence of the nine microfacial features that indicate pain, followed by intelligent automation (IA) which guides carers through the other observational assesments and then computes a final pain severity score. Assessment of facial micro-expressions that are indicative of pain is a critical element of this process. Indeed, all clinically validated multi- dimensional tools include facial-related pain assessments, and it is a recommendation of both the American Geriatric Society and Alzheimer’s UK that tools for social care take it into account. The PainChek system is a natural evolution of existing validated multi-dimensional pain assessment tools, which are typically manual processes. In this way, the tech is not changing clinical practice – rather, it is improving the process and making life easier for carers.
Without doubt, the opportunities AI offers to the global healthcare sectors, from hospitals and primary care, to aged care facilities and home care, are vast. AI can be used to automate patient assessment and remove assessor bias. It 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 or suffering a particular adverse event, diagnose disease, for example, by interpreting ECG results and X-ray images, select the optimal treatment based on a patient’s clinical history and the results of clinical trials, and monitor disease and detect early warning signs of deterioration.
“PainChek demonstrates the
enormous potential of combining AI and smart automation to
revolutionise pain assessment for care home residents living with dementia who struggle to communicate.”
At PainChek, we believe the use of AI in health and social care will be driven by the availability of big data on which to train predictive algorithms, which assist (rather than replace) human decision-making, facilitate curiosity-based thinking, enable collaboration, and remove mundane tasks, enhancing patient care as a result.
PainChek is the world’s first AI-powered pain assessment tool. It is a secure medical device for use on mobile phones and tablets and uses artificial intelligence (facial detection and analysis technology) and smart automation to detect and score pain in real time.
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