What You Should Know:
– Medbridge, a leader in digital care solutions for healthcare professionals announced a significant enhancement to its digital musculoskeletal (MSK) and movement-based medicine platform, Pathways.
– The company has launched new AI-powered motion-capture capabilities across the platform, designed to make it easier for clinicians and their patients to complete prescribed exercises and activities safely, accurately, and effectively.
– The platform-wide expansion builds upon Medbridge’s existing AI integration, previously focused on lower back pain, transforming Pathways into a comprehensive solution for a wide array of MSK conditions and beyond. The new technology combines the precision of motion capture with the intelligence of AI to guide patients through their recovery and provide clinicians with deeper insights.
Elevating Digital MSK Care with Proven Outcomes
Medbridge’s Pathways platform has already demonstrated significant positive impacts on patient recovery. According to recent Medbridge data, 70% of Pathways patients experience pain reduction, with an average decrease of 40%. Furthermore, 69% of patients see an increase in function by an average of 56% while using the program. The integration of AI-powered motion capture is expected to further amplify these results, allowing clinicians to treat more patients with improved efficiency and expanding access to care for the estimated 126 million Americans who experience an MSK condition.
“MSK issues are debilitating to millions of people around the world, and physical therapy offers a conservative, cost-effective approach to measurable improvement,” said Sarah Jacob Singh, Chief Product Officer at Medbridge. “When used in alliance with the skilled expertise of a clinician, AI-powered motion technology is a multiplier for effectiveness and outcomes. We’re thrilled to introduce this capability to help clinicians, hospitals, and health systems better support their patients with a variety of issues.”
Seamless Hybrid Care: Empowering Clinicians and Patients
The enhanced Pathways platform enables clinicians to seamlessly transition patient care from in-person appointments to effective at-home support. Through the platform, they can prescribe exercises, monitor patient activities, and track progress. The AI-powered motion-capture capability offers more accurate feedback on how patients are performing their exercises and can identify potential challenges, such as fall risks. It also provides recommendations for future exercises and patient education, both within the platform and for discussion during in-person visits. Research cited by Medbridge supports that a home visit combined with tailored exercises can lead to a 48% reduction in medically treated falls and a 23.9% reduction in overall falls.
For patients, the experience is designed to be friction-free. Using the camera on their mobile phone or computer, patients log into a personal portal to access their prescribed exercises. Medbridge’s proprietary motion-capture technology accurately and privately detects body parts and positioning, delivering real-time feedback to both the patient and the clinician. This system can flag issues and suggest corrections to positioning as needed, empowering patients and fostering better collaboration with their clinicians for faster, more effective outcomes.
Key Features of Medbridge’s AI-Powered Motion Capture:
Medbridge’s newly integrated technology is engineered to:
- Support provider analysis: Assist clinicians in their analysis of patients’ functional movement and range of motion.
- Deliver AI patient summaries: Save clinicians time by automatically compiling information from across the patient life cycle into a single, easy-to-digest paragraph for review and verification.
Enhance personalized patient experiences: Offer a patient copilot AI chatbot, allowing patients to ask questions and receive answers developed from Medbridge’s robust library of clinician-backed educational content and exercises.
