Google and care.ai Launch AI-Powered Platform to Monitor Rooms

Google and care.ai yesterday announced a partnership to power autonomous monitoring in healthcare to prevent avoidable deaths and injuries for patients. The partnership will feature Google’s Coral Edge TPU and care.ai’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to transform any room into a “Self Aware Room,” care.ai said. Google's Coral Edge TPU meets care.ai's need for the scale, accuracy and performance necessary to launch such a technology, Chakri Toleti, founder and CEO of care.ai, said in a statement to Inside Digital Health™. Care.ai bidirectional interfaces with electronic health records, he added. The companies will combine care.ai’s autonomous monitoring with Google’s edge computing framework to help address demanding challenges in healthcare, Billy Rutledge, director of Coral. Care.ai’s platform sends context-aware, intelligent notifications to staff to alert and inform them about what is happening in any room at any time.