Becker's Healthcare June 4, 2020
The New York University College of Dentistry created a mobile app that uses artificial intelligence to analyze risk factors and biomarkers from blood tests to produce a COVID-19 “severity score” for patients.
The app, which predicts how severe a COVID-19 patient’s case will be, has been evaluated within the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Health in New York City. The researchers are looking to launch it nationwide in the next few weeks, and COVID-19 severity scores derived from the app could be integrated with hospital EHRs, allowing clinicians to use the assessment tool to support care decisions.
To build the app, the NYU researchers used data from 160 hospitalized patients in Wuhan, China, to pinpoint four...