The adoption of RapidAI at Henry Ford Health has saved physicians time and improved treatment and outcomes for stroke patients. The AMA has the news.
RapidAI specifically “speeds stroke diagnosis and treatment,” analyzing CT scans for “large vessel occlusion” and then sending “images and notifications to clinicians’ mobile devices.” This has helped Henry Ford Health reduce “door-to-treatment time,” among other improvements.
Traditionally, the diagnostic path for suspected stroke included a CT scan, which was then reviewed by a radiologist, neurologist, and neurointerventionalist; RapidAI, however, reduces that process to “minutes.” Alex Chebl, director of the Henry Ford Stroke Center, says median door-to-puncture time has decreased “by about 20 minutes since 2021,” which represents a reduction of about 40%.
Henry Ford Health is also now “performing more thrombectomies while decreasing the length of stay for those patients by about 1.5 days, despite the rising number and complexity of cases they are treating now.” 57.4% of stroke patients are also going home rather than to rehab or long-term care, compared to 48.8% at “peer comprehensive stroke centers.” RapidAI is also helping the hospital reduce the number of patients who need to be transferred for a procedure. Additionally, “emergency department nurses, physicians, and other personnel…[are] updated immediately after [a patient’s] procedure.”
