Israel is using AI to flag high-risk covid-19 patients

The AI was adapted from an existing system trained to identify people most at risk from the flu, using millions of records from Maccabi going back 27 years. To make its predictions, the system draws on a range of medical data, including a person's age, BMI, health conditions such as heart disease or diabetes, and previous history of hospital admissions. The AI can trawl through a vast number of records and spot at-risk individuals who might have been missed otherwise. Maccabi also uses the AI to help determine the level of treatment the people it flags might require if they fall sick--whether they should be cared for at home, put up in a quarantine hotel, or admitted to hospital. The organization says it is now talking to major US health providers that are interested in using the AI to fast-track their own high-risk patients.