PainChek, a mobile pain assessment app has entered into a partnership with InterSystems to expand into newer markets like the hospital sector, and home care.
Through this partnership, PainChek will not only enter the global hospital market but also use the InterSystems IRIS for Health data platform to convert its custom-built message formats to HL7 and FHIR standards, enabling it to cater to both hospitals and home care. It will use InterSystems’s platform to integrate with EMR systems which manages over a billion health records worldwide.
The PainChek app is widely used in the aged care sector and uses AI and facial recognition to accurately detect and evaluate pain levels. One study has shown that the usage of the PainChek app ‘in aged care led to a 20% reduction in the use of benzodiazepines and antipsychotic medications.’
Its adoption in hospitals is expected to drive similar results, according to InterSystems. Based on the earlier EMR integrations of the app in aged care, pain assessments become automatically entered into a patient's record, making them available to clinical decision-support solutions to improve pain management.
PainChek had earlier partnered with the Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation and Edith Cowan University on a ‘two-year research investigating ways of slowing down or stopping the progression of frailty among hospital patients using a mobile pain assessment app.’
It is also reported to be working on a version of the app for non-verbal children with disabilities, which has been backed by a $260,000 grant from the government of Western Australia.