We are building the most advanced tool to improve informed consent routines

After opening the website, patients can now take their time to watch short films and consume information about their surgery. We are specialists in creating media for patient education, our short films are used to substitute long and complicated texts on paper pamphlets. In our clinical studies, we were able to prove that patients who watched our movies gave up to 24% more correct answers when asked about their treatment, than people who had just been given a paper pamphlet.

Patients will also be able to read and find more information on their treatments, fill in necessary questionnaires for the hospital, take notes, etc. The plattform will be available in a multitude of languages.

This is one of the two core elements of MAIA. Our system will intelligently extract the patients entire consumation data from the site. It can for example find out when and how much of a video a patient has seen, where they spent the most time learning about their treatment. Through guided questionnaires we will check whether a patient is scared of the upcoming surgery and why, what their general knowledge about medicine is, if they are answering the questions truthfully and attentively, etc.

While collecting vital data, MAIA also creates statistics based on all the overall patient usage data. Using those statistics, we can create efficiency reports and customer (patient) analysis for hospitals. The better healthcare providers know their patients and the way they react to treatments, the more they know about the way they learn and interact with the hospital, the more effective their overall hospital experience can be shaped.

The complete data set is anonymously interpreted and processed by MAIA and then sent back to the hospital IT system to be accessed by doctors. To identify a patient with a certain data set, patients get a randomized number at the end of their run through the educational part of the system. They can either note this number or have it sent to their phones or emails.
Once back at the hospital, doctors use that number to re-identify their patients and see their individual data in the MAIA system.

MAIA will be able to connect to most hospital IT systems through standardized data sharepoints.

Once identified through their personal ID-number, we present doctors with an intelligent summary of the patients experience, a simple „to-do“ checklist for each patients case, as well as missing information or details that might affect a successful, legally valid documentation. Outside of the hospital and the personal meeting with the doctor in the informed consent conversation, not even MAIA.tools knows the identity of single patients. To us and the system, there are only case numbers that we randomly assigned.

Using the dashboard, doctors immediately know what information they need to individually give to every one of their patients during their conversations, dramatically increasing the efficiency of that conversation.

This is the second of the two core elements of MAIA.
Using Intelligent Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, MAIA will be able to check the progress made and create a legal documentation of the entire conversation. The system listens to the actual conversation between doctors and patients and creates a semantic analysis of the conversation, it listens for keywords and automatically categorizes content. That way, a legally valid documentation is created during the informed consent conversation, without touching a single button in the process.

Using the ASR categorization and analysis, MAIA will constantly learn and become better at teaching both patients and doctors. That way, we can track if the presented information & movies cause issues in the informed consent explanation later on, and solve comprehension problems at the root.