As flu season arrives and COVID continues to lurk in the background, artificial intelligence tools offer a way for senior care and living operators to keep their facilities infection-free.
One healthtech company is installing its AI-enabled solution for infection control at 24 senior living facilities in Tennessee.
The company, Healthcare Integrated Technologies Inc., or HiTC, received a state grant of $336,000 to provide tech for both skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities statewide.
“We are thrilled to receive this substantial grant, which will enable us to further our mission of making facilities safer for patients and healthcare workers through the application of innovative AI solutions,” HiTC CEO Scott Boruff said in a statement. “We are poised to deliver transformative outcomes across these Tennessee facilities and drive meaningful, impactful change in the ALF/SNF spaces.”
Potential solutions involving AI and infection control could be a key way to confirm health for residents at a time when outside inspections and health recertifications for facilities are lagging.
HiTC’s systems leverage AI in tracking and tracing. Similar AI-powered tools, such as CarePredict, synthesize data on who has been exposed to an infection, where they have been, and who they have (physically) been in contact with.
Previous analyses of using AI for infection control indicate that AI also can help monitor hygiene practices within a facility, and may also be able to detect signs of infection faster than traditional methods.
In addition to infection control, HiTC’s website also highlights the company’s AI-enhanced ambient monitoring solution for senior living, SafeSpace, which is designed to help with detecting and preventing falls.
