Preventing Readmissions Due to Sepsis with the Wearable Monitoring & Deep Learning (Patchd Medical)

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Wei-Jien Tan, Co-Founder & CTO, Patchd Medical


Abstract:
Sepsis affects 1.7M Americans each year and 1 in 6 leads to mortality. Given that each hour till antibiotics increases risk of death by 7% each hour, it’s imperative that we intervene early. The opportunity to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs is huge and Patchd Medical is working to prevent readmissions due to sepsis. The company was founded by two engineers, myself and my cofounder who had 19 episodes of sepsis as a result of a liver transplant. The end goal, is to give wearable devices to high-risk patients that are discharged from hospital and to monitor them post-discharge, alerting the treating team when impending sepsis appears. To achieve this, we have created a proof-of-concept using ICU data and a model based on LSTM neural networks. Future plans will be described which involve techniques to handle the transfer of this algorithm The audience will walk away with an appreciation of one of the largest killers in modern medicine, an inspiring personal story, and an example of a technical approach used to solve the problem.