Montreal-area paramedics to use AI to better provide pre-hospital care [Video]

Urgences-santé and Airudi, a Quebec company specializing in the design of AI solutions, announced on Thursday a partnership to optimize pre-hospital care using artificial intelligence.

“The aim is to provide the Urgences-santé team with intelligent dashboards that will give them access to real-time data and help them make the best decisions,” Amanda Arciero, co-founder and vice-president of operations at Airudi, told The Canadian Press.

Urgences-santé provides paramedical care to 2.5 million people in Montreal and Laval annually. The company receives around 1,000 calls a day, representing around 36 per cent of ambulance requests in Quebec.

This demand is expected to increase by 10 per cent in Montreal and Laval, putting additional pressure on the workload of paramedics.

Urgences-santé believes that its partnership with Airudi will enable it to better predict demand, leading to better planning and management of the paramedic workforce.

To this end, the MODUS platform will analyze historical …