Medical Xpress November 19, 2024
Doctors may soon use an AI-driven solution to swiftly prescribe a personalized antibiotic regimen for patients with just a few mouse clicks instead of giving general treatment. The antibiotic regimen can then be adjusted, if necessary, when bacterial culture and other investigation test results become available.
Known as the Augmented Intelligence in Infectious Diseases (AI2D), the solution is developed by Singapore General Hospital (SGH) in collaboration with DXC Technology and Synapxe. It targets two common infections treated in hospitals—pneumonia and urinary tract infection.
The team, led by SGH’s Division of Pharmacy, has developed the model for pneumonia which showed 90% accuracy in a pilot validation study to first determine if antibiotics were necessary. They are now looking to measure its...
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