Intelligent Ultrasound: against COVID-19 Company
Entity: Intelligent Ultrasound
Category: HealthTech
Description: Intelligent Ultrasound develops software that improves the quality, reliability and diagnostic power of medical ultrasound – the most widely used medical imaging tool in the world. The company’s products make ultrasound easier to use and help hospitals to provide a consistently high-quality ultrasound imaging service, thereby minimising the risk of wrong or missed diagnoses. It's first product has been shown to improve rates of diagnosis in ultrasound scans of the heart by more than 40%. There are nearly 50 million medical practitioners in the world. Less than 2% of them have access to, or the skills required to scan with ultrasound, one of the fastest, safest and cheapest medical diagnostic tools available to medical practitioners. Technology can change this, and Intelligent Ultrasound's software and simulation platforms are able of unlock the potential of ultrasound for all medical practitioners. Intelligent Ultrasound uses Artificial Intelligence-based clinical image analysis software tools for diagnostic and virtual reality simulators for the ultrasound training market. Based in Cardiff and Oxford in the UK, Atlanta in the US and with representation in Beijing in Asia, the Group operates two divisions:
. Clinical AI Division: Focusses on developing deep learning-based algorithms to make ultrasound machines smarter and more accessible. Products in development include ScanNav which uses machine-learning based algorithms to automatically identify and grade ultrasound images to provide scan assessment and audit of protocol-based ultrasound scanning; and AnatomyGuide, which aims to simplify ultrasound-guided needling by providing the user with real-time AI-based needle guidance software for a range of medical procedures.
. Simulation Division: Focusses on hi-fidelity ultrasound education and training through simulation. Its three main products are the ScanTrainer OBGYN training simulator, the HeartWorks echocardiography training simulator and the BodyWorks Eve Point of Care and Emergency Medicine training simulator. To date over 850 simulators have been sold to over 500 medical institutions around the world.
Project: BodyWorks Eve COVID-19 module for front line clinician training in COVID-19 outbreak
Summary: Intelligent Ultrasound Group, the ultrasound artificial intelligence (AI) software and simulation company, announces it has produced a case study based on feedback from the Veteran’s Administration NY Harbor Healthcare Simulation Center in New York, USA, which has been using Intelligent Ultrasound's BodyWorks Eve COVID-19 module. New York is currently the epicentre of the US pandemic and, facing a mounting number of patients, the centre has recently introduced critical care simulation based training sessions utilising the BodyWorks Point-of-Care (PoCUS) Ultrasound Simulator with the newly installed COVID-19 lung module. These sessions have prepared non critical care health care professionals including surgery, anaesthesiology, paediatrics and acute care nurse practitioners for roles as bedside ICU providers. The simulation sessions have been made available to all providers scheduled to work in the rapidly expanding COVID-19 intensive care units.
+ Investors:
Parkwalk Advisors
IP Group Plc
