Medbridge, a Bellevue, Washington-based digital care company, has launched new AI-powered motion-capture capabilities through its digital musculoskeletal and movement-based medicine platform. The company works with clinicians, hospitals, and health systems to address musculoskeletal (MSK) issues, serving customers like Intermountain Health, Kaiser Permanente, and AdventHealth among others.
Key Features of Medbridge’s Platform
Medbridge provides an AI-driven software platform that enables hybrid care for patients with MSK conditions. Patients can log into the Pathways program to perform AI-monitored therapeutic exercises, receive condition management guidance, and track their progress. Clinicians can monitor patient activity to better understand their condition and adjust treatment plans accordingly.
New Motion Capture Capabilities
The new motion capture feature allows patients to receive accurate feedback on exercises using their mobile phone or computer camera. Medbridge’s AI technology detects body parts and positioning, providing real-time feedback to both patients and clinicians. This capability, previously limited to lower back pain, now supports assessment of pain in various body areas including the neck, elbows, hips, and knees. It also identifies potential fall risks.
Enhancing Patient Care through Technology
“This real-time feedback not only helps patients instantly but also empowers them and their clinician to work together on future exercises and education for better, faster outcomes,” said Donovan Campbell, CEO of Medbridge. The platform uses AI to summarize recent patient activity and results in clinicians’ EHR systems, helping them quickly understand patient progress.
Additional AI-Powered Features
Medbridge also offers an AI chatbot that allows patients to ask questions and receive responses about MSK care. The company plans to measure the success of these new capabilities by tracking patient pain management, physician function, patient satisfaction, and engagement.
Addressing Healthcare Challenges
The introduction of these AI capabilities aims to combat the growing healthcare shortage, exacerbated by an aging population, clinician burnout, and provider shortages. Campbell noted that current wait times for pelvic health therapy appointments in the U.S. range from six weeks to six months.
“We believe that the future of care looks like AI doing what AI can, while humans do what humans should,” Campbell said. “Without offloading care and administrative capacity to AI agents that can augment the total availability of human care capacity, we will have to ration care in the future.”
Medbridge differentiates itself from competitors like Hinge Health and Sword Health by selling software rather than services, positioning itself uniquely in the MSK support market.
