Ernst & Young Nominate Sentara For
Computerworld Smithsonian Award Sentara
Submits MEDai As Outstanding Project

Orlando, FL – The Sentara Health System, Norfolk, Virginia has been nominated by Ernst & Young for the Computerworld Smithsonian Award. Sentara submitted a project entitled "Clinical Care Improvement Using Artificial Intelligence Assisted Disease Analysis" which was the result of a joint development with MEDai, Inc. of Orlando, Florida. The project tightly integrated artificial intelligence assisted software and clinical optimization concepts to evaluate medical care delivery by identifying opportunities for care improvement, avoiding death and disability, and decreasing costs.

The Clinical Decision Support System software (CDSS) allowed Sentara managers and physicians to analyze current care capabilities in selected disease processes. Since the financial data was not designed to analyze care processes, MEDai developed a sophisticated data cleansing, tagging, and severity adjustment system utilizing neural networks (artificial intelligence). The highly successful project resulted in million dollar savings through improvements in care, quality and diminished suffering.

Benefits which resulted from the partnership were: Stroke complications were avoided or minimized. Health care cost avoidance of more than $2,000 per patient. Assurance that patients received medication appropriate for their disease. Elimination of unnecessary steps for some surgical procedures. A unique aspect of this project was the superiority of AI methodologies for adjusting for patient differences. This method permits the separation of changes in process and structure from patient differences, both of which result in changes in outcomes. For more information contact:

For More Information Contact:
Steve Epstein, President and Co-founder
MEDai, Inc.
800-446-3324