Apollo Hospitals Group announced a partnership with India Medtronic Private Limited to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) for advanced stroke management for the first time in India. The USFDA approved AI platform for stroke diagnosis has been validated by clinical trials. The AI software will provide automated analysis in less than two minutes, enabling faster decision making in the stroke where every second count. Through this partnership, Medtronic will help in bringing in stroke technologies, technical expertise, training, and comprehensive stroke management with the integration of an AI platform at the Apollo Institute of Neurosciences at ten locations in Apollo Hospitals across India.

The AI platform uses artificial intelligence to create high quality, advanced images from non-contrast CT, CT angiography, CT perfusion, and MRI diffusion and perfusion scans, helping hospitals to improve time-critical triage or transfer decisions and facilitate better patient outcomes. The stroke team will be able to remotely access the brain scans of stroke patients with the AI analysis on the mobile app or email for faster decision making without losing time. Other benefits include physicians being able to evaluate the patient remotely and visit in-person only when the AI analysis of the scans suggest an indication for treatment. This will help to reduce unnecessary exposure in a COVID situation. The AI system will also generate a valid document proof to support the clinician’s decision taken on the course of treatment for a stroke patient.

The Apollo Hospitals and Medtronic partnership to build comprehensive stroke management will lead to multiple patient benefits. The use of an AI platform in stroke management will reduce diagnosis time from 60 minutes to 2 minutes. A stroke at odd hours of the night will not result in patients losing time for an expert review to begin treatment. The time between the onset of stroke to treatment is significantly reduced which can help in improving outcomes, reducing hospital stay, and saving costs for the patient not just on hospitalization but also on follow-up and rehabilitation. Every patient will receive appropriate treatment as per the indication and not lose any treatment opportunity.

Apollo Hospitals’ comprehensive stroke center equipped with 24/7 emergency, a team of specialized experts, CT, MRI facility, and capability of specialized surgical and interventional therapies will have treatment taken to the next level through AI. With AI technology, stroke diagnosis will be standardized and scans will be available remotely within no time to the stroke physician. The partnership will optimize stroke protocol and create a strong regional tele-stroke network with the power of AI.

The AI technology-enabled advanced stroke management will be launched at the Apollo Institute of Neurosciences at Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru; Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai; Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai; Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad; Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad; Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi; Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Jayanagar, Bengaluru; Apollo Hospitals, Sheshadripuram, Bengaluru; Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysore; and Apollo Hospitals, Indore.