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Sepsis Scout

Wearables and AI to predict and prevent sepsis outside the hospital

Y CombinatorWinter 2018AcquiredHealthcareHealthcare ITDeep LearningHealth TechMedical Devices

What they do

Problem

Sepsis can go undetected outside the hospital until it becomes life-threatening, leading to delayed treatment and poor outcomes.

Solution

The company uses wearable sensors and AI models to monitor patients and predict or alert on sepsis risk outside hospital settings.

Who it's for

Patients at risk of sepsis and the clinicians or care teams monitoring them outside the hospital.

Founders

Robert Quinn
Founder/CEO
Wei-Jien Tan
Founder/CTO

I have a background in EE and Physiology. I worked in a neuroscience lab applying ML to electrophysiological measurements from rat and monkey brains to predict visual stimulus, then worked in implantable medical devices as an engineer where I wrote firmware and did electronic design. I met my cofounder Rob there and we started Patchd Medical which became Sepsis Scout which was then acquired by Cytovale.

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