Falls come at a substantial cost, says the CDC— estimated at more than $67 billion today, with Medicare and Medicaid taking on 75 percent of the expense. Imagine if you or your loved ones could have some advance notice so that you could intervene?
Health Tech Magazine reports that a growing pool of applications are leveraging data and artificial intelligence to better predict a person’s risk of falling. Motum's machine learning Insight Engine uses AI to interpret changes in gait that foreshadow a fall or other negative health event.