Ipswich Hospital has seen benefits to its stroke pathway thanks to a strategic tech partnership between Visionable and AI-powered medtech solutions company Brainomix. The partnership is combining Visionable's virtual healthcare collaboration platform with Brainomix's e-Stroke imaging software. The collaboration is saving time, reducing clinicians' workload and supporting improved outcomes for patients. The benefit of combining these two technologies has already been felt at Ipswich Hospital. Recent performance metrics have confirmed that Ipswich Hospital is delivering best-in-class service.

The AI-powered medtech solutions company, Brainomix, has been awarded the national tender in Hungary to deploy its AI stroke imaging software across all stroke centers in Hungary as part of the National Institute for Health Development initiative to improve stroke care. Awarded following a competitive process, the 5-year program is funded under the EU4Health programme and is the first time that a single stroke AI imaging platform will be deployed across an entire country. This latest tender will build upon an earlier EU grant that had funded the installation of Brainomix's flagship e-Stroke platform in 10 hospitals in and around the Hungarian city of Pécs. It will enable e-Stroke to be deployed across the remaining 28 stroke centres in Hungary's national healthcare system, with the support of eRAD, who will be serving as a technological partner. The initiative to use AI to improve stroke care and patient outcomes for the benefit of all stroke patients in Hungary was driven by world leading neuroscientist, Prof Dr István Szikora of the National Institute of Mental Health, Neurology and Neurosurgery, (OMIII) in Budapest, which will serve as the national stroke centre with full oversight for the program.

Every 30 minutes a stroke patient who could have been saved dies or is permanently disabled, in many cases because they were treated in the wrong hospital. In Europe, only about a third of stroke patients have access to the organised stroke care they need to survive a stroke with minimal or no disability. Stroke treatment is particularly time-sensitive. The so-called door-to-therapy (D2T) time describes the time interval between a patient arriving at the hospital and the initiation of their therapy. D2T time is critical for patient outcomes: on average, each single minute saved adds two days of healthy life and every 15 minutes saved adds one extra month of disability-free life.