Northwell Health research arm develops AI tool to help hospital patients avoid sleepless nights

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, a division of the Northwell Health system, has developed an artificial intelligence tool to gauge when hospitalized patients need to be woken up during the night. By letting patients sleep, the health system can speed up patients' recovery and discharge them faster. It can also help avoid causing delirium in patients, noted Theodoros Zanos, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Feinstein Institutes' Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine. "It actually is a critical piece of a person getting better in the hospital," Zanos told Fierce Healthcare. "We know that sleep disruption can essentially slow down recovery."