Endeavor, Northwestern partner on AI tool to detect lung condition

Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health is piloting a computer program developed with Northwestern University in Evanston that aims to detect acute respiratory distress syndrome, a common but hard-to-diagnose lung condition.

The program, trained on clinical guidelines used by ICU physicians, scans patient records to identify signs of ARDS, a disorder that affects up to 190,000 Americans annually and has a mortality rate higher than 40%. Researchers tested the tool on data from a hospital outside the Endeavor and Northwestern systems and found it correctly diagnosed 93.5% of ARDS cases with a 17% false-positive rate, according to an Aug. 25 news release from the health system.

Endeavor partnered with Northwestern data scientists to develop the algorithm, which scans EHRs for subtle patterns that may otherwise go unnoticed in routine care. The system will now pilot the tool across its hospitals to evaluate its real-time performance in critical care settings.

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