RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) is contributing to global healthcare innovation, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to enhance diagnostics accuracy, streamline patient care, and improve treatment outcomes. Central to this is the Centre for Healthcare Intelligence (CHI), which utilizes 20 AI applications to advance medical imaging, patient flow, and resource management, fostering a sustainable AI ecosystem.
Through predictive models for bone marrow transplants and heart failure readmissions, CHI enables early identification of high-risk patients, improving real-time, personalized treatments. In collaboration with the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, CHI has launched a training program in applied health AI, empowering healthcare workers to make precise, timely decisions and advancing AI leadership. Additionally, AI tools in radiology have improved diagnostic accuracy by 25% and reduced misdiagnosis rates by 18%, advancing the detection of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
The hospital’s AI-powered Capacity Command Centre automates tasks and optimizes resource allocation to streamline care further. Since 2021, it has completed over 170,000 interventions, cutting bed waiting times from 32 to 6 hours, with 90% of pharmacy and lab services completed within 15 minutes. KFSHRC continues to advance its AI capabilities with JuhAIna, a generative AI system designed to streaml.
