International Olympic Committee & GE Healthcare Launch Analytics Tool to Help Drive Precision Health at the Olympic Winter Ga...
February 05 2018 - 10:10AM
Business Wire
- Dashboards provide real-time analytics
on information pertaining to injury type and illness outbreak to
help clinicians improve athlete health, performance and safety
- Clinicians can access and input data
into the solution from anywhere, anytime via mobile tablet
- Multilingual solution designed to
reflect diversity in nationalities represented at the Olympic
Winter Games
GE Healthcare today announced a new advanced analytics solution
built for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 and to be used
for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Designed in partnership with the
International Olympic Committee (IOC), the tool integrates valuable
information, such as athlete injury and illness data, with venue,
sport and training procedures, to help ensure clinicians have a
comprehensive view of a patient’s health and can make an informed,
rapid treatment decision. The insights also aim to inform long-term
improvements to health and safety at the Olympic Games.
The GE Athlete Management Solution (AMS) collects multiple kinds
of data, including imaging scans, patient vitals, and venue, event
and sport-specific information, and provides real-time dashboards
that can help inform medical staff and allow them to personalize
treatment for athletes while identifying trends in injury and
illness across the Games. For example, the tool can flag a “hot
spot” where multiple injuries are occurring, or a spike in illness
among spectators who attended an event at a specific venue . The
tool is cloud-based, embedded with appropriate security controls,
and enables remote entry of and access to data by clinicians
anywhere and at any time – whether they are in a Polyclinic, the
facility that provides care to anyone involved in the Games, a
local hospital, or their hotel room.
“Through digital transformation, the IOC is pursuing its mission
of helping to prevent injuries among our world-class athletes,”
said Dr. Richard Budgett, Medical and Scientific Director for the
IOC. “With 40 sports across the Olympic Games and Olympic Winter
Games, each athlete requires unique healthcare monitoring and care.
AMS will provide information that helps clinicians personalize
training and treatment, so Olympians are best positioned to
compete.”
The solution reflects GE Healthcare’s commitment to precision
health, a holistic approach to patient care which encompasses
diagnostics, therapeutics and monitoring to help ensure that
appropriate actions are taken at the right time for each individual
patient. In the context of the Games, this means considering
differences in athlete’s medical histories, training environments
and sport.
With the multilingual AMS, team doctors from different countries
can work and collaborate with other physicians in their native
language, all with the click of a button. Supported languages
include English, French, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese,
German, Spanish and Korean. All AMS terms and data were edited and
validated by native speakers to help ensure proper and accurate
translation. Additional information such as medications approved
for prescription is also integrated into the solution. All features
aim to inform the IOC and clinicians so that they have the ability
to rapidly and effectively address injury and illness, with the
goal of driving the best possible performance by athletes and the
best possible experience for spectators.
“Olympians train for many years to represent their nations at
the Games,” said Dr. Jorg Debatin, Vice President & Chief
Technology Officer for GE Healthcare. “Their Herculean efforts must
be matched with superhuman clinical speed and quality. AMS helps
clinicians do just that – by making data and actionable insights
readily available to the treating clinicians.”
Representatives from the United States Center for Disease
Control, the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and
the Public Health England Centre of Infectious Disease Surveillance
and Control have all been trained on AMS and will use the solution
to support public health monitoring during the Games.
About GE Healthcare
Harnessing data and analytics across hardware, software and
biotech, GE Healthcare is the $19 billion healthcare business of GE
(NYSE:GE). As a leading provider of medical imaging equipment, with
a track record of more than 100 years in the industry and more than
50,000 employees across 100 countries, we transform healthcare by
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