The Red Star Heart Failure Platform
Improved Heart Failure Identification and Management
Scotland has yet to establish a large-scale audit of heart failure patients. Diagnosis of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is not explicit in medical records — it’s often embedded within broader echocardiogram reports. This challenge makes identifying heart failure patients difficult. While NHS England has a heart failure audit, it only includes patients who have presented (unscheduled) to the hospital.
The Red Star Heart Failure Platform is a cutting-edge solution designed to close the gaps in heart failure management by:
Identifying Heart failure Patients
Rapidly identifying heart failure from electronic health records (EHRs) using a powerful AI machine-learning algorithm.
Reviewing Current Treatment Against Guidelines
Comparing patients’ current treatments with evidence-based guidelines to highlight any discrepancies, such as patients not receiving the appropriate therapy.
Auditing Outcomes and Compliance
Auditing patient outcomes and ensuring compliance with best practices, ultimately supporting clinicians in optimising patient care.
Key Features
AI-Powered Echo Report Analysis
The Red Star platform employs a sophisticated AI algorithm, validated to achieve an impressive 98.1% accuracy in detecting heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) from echo reports. This ensures that patients at risk are identified quickly and accurately.
Guideline-Based Treatment Review
The platform reviews patients’ current treatments against clinical guidelines, identifying those who are not on optimal therapy. This feature empowers clinicians to make necessary adjustments, leading to better patient outcomes. Our study has demonstrated that optimizing treatment can reduce NT-proBNP levels in 82% of patients and improve KCCQ scores in 67% of patients.
Changes in KCCQ overall summary score after treatment optimisation
Changes in NT-proBNP level after treatment optimisation
Comprehensive Audit of Outcomes
The Red Star platform provides an audit of patient outcomes (using routinely collected data) and compliance with best practices. By continuously monitoring and analysing patient data, the platform supports clinicians in ensuring that treatments align with the latest clinical guidelines, leading to improved patient care.
Real-Time Data Integration
A seamless integration with existing EHRs in development, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date view of each patient’s cardiac health. Clinicians can make informed decisions based on real-time, actionable insights.
Benefits
Enhanced Patient Outcomes
The Red Star Heart Failure Platform has demonstrated improvements in key cardiac biomarkers and quality of life measures, reflecting the effectiveness of timely and accurate treatment adjustments.
Streamlined Clinical Workflow
By automating the identification of heart failure patients and highlighting those not on guideline-directed therapy, the platform reduces the workload on healthcare providers, allowing them to focus on patient interaction rather than manual data reviews.
Scalable and Adaptable
Designed to be scalable across various healthcare environments, from small clinics to large hospital systems, the platform adapts to different clinical workflows, ensuring that every heart failure patient receives the best possible care.
Expert Opinion
“Over the past few years, there have been major advances in heart failure care with new medications, however many patients who were diagnosed before these advances may not yet be on up-to-date treatment. Unfortunately, due to service constraints, sometimes the first opportunity to identify patients who might benefit from more intensive treatment is after their condition has deteriorated and they have been admitted to hospital, which might be too late. If we could identify such patients at an earlier stage, we might be able to intervene before a deterioration, but at present doing this is often difficult and time-consuming, as it requires busy clinical teams to do a manual search of patient records over weeks and months.”
– Dr Ify Mordi
STV
British Medical Journal
University of Dundee
Join the future of heart failure management with the Red Star Heart Failure Platform. Contact us today to schedule a demo or learn more about how our platform can improve care for your patients.