‘\u00e4ldre i centrum’ hjemmesiden<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn an international project involving researchers from Lund University, among others, artificial intelligence is being explored as a tool to help municipalities improve the quality of healthcare for elderly patients with multiple chronic conditions. The project also aims to identify shortcomings in communication between different healthcare providers at the municipal and regional levels.
\nOut of a total of 300,000 emergency visits made in Sk\u00e5ne between 2017 and 2018, approximately one-tenth were related to individuals over 75 years old. Among these, 10,000 patients had multiple chronic conditions, also known as multimorbidity. <\/p>\n
Now, an international project with researchers from Sweden and Denmark is investigating how artificial intelligence can help predict which elderly patients are at risk of readmission. Currently, they are analysing data from all adult emergency visits in Sk\u00e5ne during 2017 and 2018. This is where artificial intelligence plays a crucial role. <\/p>\n
One of the participating researchers is Anders Bj\u00f6rkelund from Lund University, an expert in computational science and data analysis using machine learning \u2013 the foundation of artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n
“With the help of machine learning, we can structure and identify patterns in these large datasets much more efficiently than through traditional methods,” says Anders Bj\u00f6rkelund in a press release.<\/p>\n
The data being examined includes patients’ diagnostic history, prescribed medications, blood test results from emergency visits, and details of medical procedures. The project’s focus is on enabling artificial intelligence to identify the key factors that increase the risk of a multimorbid elderly patient requiring further medical care. <\/p>\n
In addition to this, a parallel aspect of the project is investigating ways to bridge communication gaps between hospital and primary care services, particularly when a patient is transferred between these healthcare providers. <\/p>\n
“In Region Sk\u00e5ne, hospital and primary care services use different medical record systems and therefore cannot access each other\u2019s documentation. This is a major issue,”* says Karol Biegus, senior physician at Helsingborg Hospital and PhD student at Lund University. <\/p>\n
To address this problem, he is exploring the development of care plans that all healthcare providers can access using artificial intelligence. These plans would outline the patient\u2019s future medical treatment and care needs. <\/p>\n
“It is about ensuring that the patient receives the right follow-up care, preventing unnecessary hospital readmissions,” says Karol Biegus.<\/p>\n
Facts<\/strong>
\nThe Bridging Safe Elderly Care project is a three-year research initiative funded with \u20ac1.5 million from the EU’s Interreg programme. The project involves Region Sk\u00e5ne, Lund University, Region Zealand, and the technology company IQVIA. <\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}