Predictheon, a startup which emerged from IDIBAPS, has been chosen to participate in the "AI for Good Innovation Factory" Grand Final, which will be held during the 2025 Global Summit of the United Nations AI for Good, to be held this summer in Geneva. It will do so with the innovative solution based on artificial intelligence that it presented at the "AI for Good Innovation Factory – Catalonia", the Catalan chapter of the global startup competition led by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency specialised in digital technology. This competition aims to find the most promising AI solutions to respond to global challenges addressed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As the winner, in addition to entry to the World Grand Finale, Predictheon will have access to an ITU acceleration programme and the Alumni network in order to connect with other startups that have already participated; to networking opportunities with top-tier venture capital, global investors, and business leaders, and exclusive mentorship from industry experts to further refine its project for international exposure.
The Secretary for Digital Policies, Maria Galindo, and the Deputy Director and Head of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), Bilel Jamoussi, attended the event. In her speech, Secretary Galindo assured attendees that, "with initiatives like this, the Government continues to work together and collaborate with organisations of global relevance such as the United Nations ITU, to ensure that AI is a technology that serves humanity, strengthens our communities, and creates a better world for future generations".
Predictheon, AI for the anaesthesiology team
In anaesthesia, both for procedures that require sedation and for those that require a general anaesthetic, drugs must be administered that prevent the patient from being fully conscious or from feeling pain derived from the procedure. However, these drugs alter physiological mechanisms and can cause adverse events that the anaesthesiologist usually corrects reactively, once they have already occurred.
The predictive software created by Predictheon comes from the mathematical analysis of data collected from thousands of patients undergoing surgical procedures with sedation or general anaesthetic. Its algorithms, developed using advanced mathematical methods including artificial intelligence, make it possible to continuously predict the probability of clinically relevant adverse events minutes beforehand. With this information to support decision-making, anaesthesiologists can make changes in anaesthetic management before any adverse event occurs, reducing their incidence, increasing patient safety, and improving the healing process.
Predictheon is a spin-off created in 2019 from the research group of Dr. Pedro Gambús, Consultant 2 of the Anaesthesiology Service of the Hospital Clínic and attached to IDIBAPS.
