{"id":19131,"date":"2020-05-15T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19131"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:59","slug":"faster-than-covid-computer-model-predicts-diseases-next-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/15\/faster-than-covid-computer-model-predicts-diseases-next-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster than COVID-19: computer model predicts disease\u2019s next move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640.png\" alt=\"hands holding tables with health info &amp; graphs\" class=\"wp-image-19133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640.png 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640-252x200.png 252w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640-176x140.png 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>(<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/ehr-emr-electronic-medical-record-1476525\/\">mcmurryjul \/ Pixabay<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.engin.umich.edu\/2020\/05\/faster-than-covid-a-computer-model-that-predicts-the-diseases-next-move\/\">M-CURES, a computational model now in development<\/a>, could help hospitals anticipate fast-changing patient needs while keeping care providers safe. Developed by a team of researchers at the College of Engineering, Precision Health, and Michigan Medicine, the model uses a machine learning algorithm to crunch more than 200 health and demographic variables of individual COVID-19 patients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The model then outputs a numerical score, updated every four hours, that predicts the patient\u2019s likelihood of requiring ICU-level care. Preliminary validation of M-CURES has shown it to be effective in predicting the progression of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cM-CURES could help the hospital get better answers to questions like who is likely to need ICU care and how many ICU beds it will need within a given time frame,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Jenna Wiens<\/strong>, an associate professor of computer science at engineering and co-director of Precision Health at U-M. \u201cIt could also help the families of severely ill COVID patients by giving them more time to evaluate treatment options.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-CURES, a computational model now in development, could help hospitals anticipate fast-changing patient needs while keeping care providers safe. Developed by a team of researchers at the College of Engineering, Precision Health, and Michigan Medicine, the model uses a machine learning algorithm to crunch more than 200 health and demographic variables of individual COVID-19 patients. The model then\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/15\/faster-than-covid-computer-model-predicts-diseases-next-move\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[810,489,742,51],"class_list":["post-19131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-covid","tag-health-care","tag-machine-learning","tag-medical"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640.png",640,508,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640-176x140.png",176,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640-252x200.png",252,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640.png",640,508,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640.png",600,476,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640.png",640,508,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640.png",640,508,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640-640x300.png",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640.png",640,508,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ehr-1476525_640.png",315,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"M-CURES, a computational model now in development, could help hospitals anticipate fast-changing patient needs while keeping care providers safe. Developed by a team of researchers at the College of Engineering, Precision Health, and Michigan Medicine, the model uses a machine learning algorithm to crunch more than 200 health and demographic variables of individual COVID-19 patients.&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19290,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19131\/revisions\/19290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}