Arkus Genetic Digital Assistant Suite

At Arkus AI, we focus on enhancing and streamlining the genetic care process. Our range of digital tools is developed keeping both the patient and the healthcare provider in mind, setting new standards in genetic preventive care.

Our tool is designed to enhance efficiency by digitising essential processes of genetic investigation and genetic counselling. It consists of five distinct modules. These modules can operate independently, or healthcare providers can integrate multiple modules, tailoring solutions to their unique needs.

Patient-Driven Digital Tools

myInfo: Patient info collection for triage or before the first patient meeting

Assist the staff before their first interaction with patients or during preliminary discussions.

Features:
  • Identifies the pertinent medical department for self-referred patients (‘egenremiss’) such as oncology or prenatal.
  • Accumulates essential data like personal health profiles, reasons for contact, and a list of relatives with associated disease diagnoses.
  • Offers concise information presentation for providers to make informed decisions.
Optional:

An AI feature can suggest healthcare providers’ subsequent steps based on gathered data.

Impact:

Empowers patients, reduces staff involvement, and optimizes patient flow, ensuring prompt care for those in dire need.

myFamilytree: Pedigree Information Collection

An intuitive tool for patients to document their family medical history.

Process:

Patients receive a link to the tool, log in using BankId, and are guided to create their family tree, inputting relevant medical histories.

Features:
  • Collects details like family cancer diagnoses, genetic test histories, and environmental factors.
  • Seamlessly integrates the generated family tree with other modules.
  • Provides printable and downloadable pedigrees.
Optional:

Tool can advise on the next steps and pinpoint which relative’s medical history is crucial.

Impact:

Simplifies pedigree creation and ensures accuracy while saving significant staff time.

Tools for Healthcare Professionals

eConsent: Digital Consent Management

Streamlines the process of obtaining authenticated consents from relatives.

Features:
  • Paper-free and fast process.
  • Simplified consent requests and responses via mobile devices.
  • Uses BankId for authenticating consents.
  • Automatic alerts for received consents and reminders for pending ones.
Impact:

Reduces the time and effort spent in the consent collection process.

i-Assistant: AI-powered Genetic Information Digital Assistant

Assists healthcare staff in making informed decisions swiftly.

Functions:
  • Eligibility Assessment: Recommends if a patient qualifies for genetic examination based on their pedigree and regional guidelines.
  • Familial Risk Assessment: Presents possible familial risks based on certain conditions.
  • Risk Countermeasures: Suggests potential screenings, monitoring, and preventive measures based on the patient’s profile and results.
Impact:

Provides a more structured approach to patient assessment, ensuring timely and accurate healthcare decisions.

i-Pedigree: AI-powered Pedigree tool for healthcare professionals

A user-friendly tool tailored for healthcare professionals, primarily genetic counsellors, to generate and modify a patient’s pedigree.

Features:
  • Versatile functions including pedigree creation, editing, and deletion.
  • Outputs the patient’s pedigree in formats compatible with other tools.
  • Assesses eligibility and familial risk.
  • Identify other family members who is recommended to take a genetic test
  • Incorporates features of the patient-driven myFamilytree tool.
Impact:

Reduces the complexity of pedigree documentation, ensuring clarity and efficiency in patient evaluations.

Who in the healthcare industry can benefit from the tool?

Hospitals with clinical genetics capacity

How it’s used:
  • Patients use this before their first contact with healthcare providers or during initial interactions.
  • For self-referred patients, the tool determines the appropriate medical department (e.g., oncology, prenatal).
  • Captures essential data from the patient, such as health profiles, reason for contact, and familial disease history.
  • An intelligent feature (optional) can generate suggestions based on the gathered information, aiding healthcare providers in decision-making.
Benefits:
  • Streamlined patient onboarding, reducing wait times and bottlenecks.
  • Automated triage and prioritization ensure urgent cases are addressed promptly.
  • The structured presentation of information ensures quick and accurate decision-making by healthcare providers.
How it’s used:
  • Patients can directly proceed from the myInfo module or access the tool through a link provided by hospital staff.
  • Using their BankId, patients log in and are guided to create a family tree, inputting relevant family medical history.
  • The patient-created family trees can be shared with other modules, printed, downloaded, or exported in various file formats.
Benefits:
  • Empowers patients by giving them a platform to share comprehensive family histories.
  • Reduces the time hospital staff traditionally spends on collecting and organizing family medical histories.
  • Digital format ensures easy integration with other tools and systems, enhancing data fluidity.
How it’s used:
  • Seamlessly send and collect authenticated consents from patients and their relatives.
  • Utilize BankId for authentication of consents.
  • Receive and act upon automatic alerts once consents are received.
  • Set automated reminders for patients regarding pending requests.
  • View and adjust consent requests based on individual case requirements.
Benefits:
  • Streamlined and secure consent process.
  • Increased number of successful case completions.
  • Reduced administrative overhead and associated costs.
How it’s used:
  • Evaluate a patient’s eligibility for genetic investigation.
  • Obtain automated suggestions on familial risks and further refine them.
  • Receive recommendations for patient screening, monitoring, and preventive measures.
Benefits:
  • Swift and precise decision-making for patient care.
  • Efficient data management reduces operational time.
  • Ensures patients receive appropriate and timely preventive measures.
How it’s used:
  • The Pedigree Tool directly integrates with the myFamilytree module.
  • Patients use the myFamilytree tool to enter their family medical history.
  • Once entered, this data becomes automatically accessible within the Pedigree Tool, eliminating the need for genetic counsellors to manually create or transcribe pedigrees.
Benefits:
  • Saves valuable time: Traditionally, hospital staff would draw a patient’s pedigree during consultation or transcribe data from a form pre-filled by the patient. With myFamilytree, this step is bypassed, resulting in significant time savings.
  • Reduces potential errors and data redundancies by eliminating manual data transcription.
  • Enhances the patient experience as they can provide information at their convenience, leading to more accurate and comprehensive data.
How it’s used:
  • Beyond data collected through myFamilytree, the Pedigree Tool allows genetic counsellors to create, edit, view, and delete pedigrees.
  • Features interactions with eConsent, eligibility assessments, familial risk assessments, and risk countermeasures.
  • Enables the export of pedigrees in formats compatible with other tools.
Benefits:
  • Offers a centralized and comprehensive platform tailored to the needs of genetic counsellors.
  • Streamlines various aspects of the genetic consultation process through integrated features.
  • Ensures compatibility and seamless integration with external tools and systems through various export formats.

Specialized Clinics (e.g., Oncology Clinics)

Specialized clinics encounter patients who may have potential hereditary risks. Determining these risks is vital, especially in areas such as oncology, where understanding genetic predispositions can have profound implications for patient care.

How it’s used:
  • Through this tool, patients are guided to detail their family tree and any associated medical histories.
  • The same tool can be used by the staff to make initial assessment of potential hereditary risk, which is the basis for a referral to the clinical genetic counselling and test.
Benefits:
  • Bridging the gap between specialized care and the need (but lack) of specialied knowledge in genetics.
  • Enhances the clinic’s proficiency in amassing extensive familial data without necessitating extra staff resources.
  • Encourages patient involvement, granting them a say in their healthcare journey.
How it’s used:
  • Leverage the Digital Information Assistant to effortlessly access and comprehend familial risks, understand the repercussions of monogene mutations, and discern potential countermeasures.
  • With the Pedigree tool, staff can not only form and adjust a patient’s pedigree but also receive suggestions on which family members might need further genetic tests.
Benefits:
  • Reduce the requirement of on-site specilised genetic experts
  • Provides a useful framework for staff to understand a patient genetic predispositions and countermeasure.

Primary Care

Primary care stands as the frontline in healthcare, with family doctors often interacting with patients who have diverse health needs. Often, these professionals might not possess the specialised expertise to determine potential hereditary risks. The Arkus AI suite aims to augment their capabilities in this area.

myInfo: Patient info collection for triage or before the first patient meeting
  • Guide patients to use myInfo, allowing them to input essential data such as personal health profiles, reasons for consultation, and details about relatives with specific medical conditions.
myFamilytree: Pedigree Information Collection
  • Doctors can recommend patients to employ the myFamilytree tool. By accessing a dedicated link, patients can methodically document their family medical history. This information becomes crucial for doctors as they attempt to decipher familial health patterns.
  • Streamlined Patient Profiles: Using the myInfo tool, doctors can ensure a more organised pre-consultation phase, making sure they’re equipped with a comprehensive overview of a patient’s medical history before the initial consultation.
  • Enhanced Understanding of Hereditary Risks: With myFamilytree, primary care professionals can capture a thorough family medical history, aiding in the identification of potential hereditary risks.
  • Improved Referral Quality: Harnessing the insights from these tools, primary care doctors can make more informed decisions regarding patient referrals to clinical genetic centres. This precision in referrals can curtail unnecessary ones, leading to substantial cost savings for the healthcare system.
  • Optimized Patient Care: Armed with precise information, primary care doctors can ensure that patients with evident medical needs receive attention promptly, enhancing patient care quality.

Hospital information system vendors – OEM model

You can extend your current product and solution offering by integrating one or more modules into your system.

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