{"id":307736,"date":"2026-10-16T05:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307736\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:30:08","slug":"new-penn-ai-platform-allows-patients-to-communicate-directly-with-their-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307736\/","title":{"rendered":"New Penn AI platform allows patients to communicate directly with their medical devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn researchers recently unveiled an artificial intelligence platform that allows patients with epilepsy to communicate directly with their medical devices.<\/p>\n

The platform, released in an Oct. 13 study, will enable patients to receive real-time information about their brain activity and potential oncoming seizures. Bioengineering professor Brian Litt worked with a team to develop the program, which aims to shift health monitoring capabilities to patients rather than solely their physicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The platform addresses a limitation of existing medical devices by improving the communication between the medical data collected and the patients themselves, according to Litt.<\/p>\n

Through a mobile application, patients can exchange messages with an AI assistant that analyzes their neurological data. The system notifies patients of potential seizures, provides information about their brain activity, and asks questions about symptoms or behaviors that may affect their health.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour medical device might text you and say, \u2018What did you do? Your probability of having a seizure just went up by 60%,\u2019\u201d Litt said<\/a> in a January interview. \u201cAnd you might have had a beer, or taken a new antibiotic or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The study involved 13 patients undergoing continuous brain monitoring at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Participants exchanged 1,307 messages with the platform, asking questions about their seizures, sleep patterns, and other health information.<\/p>\n

In the future, the team believes this platform can be applied<\/a> broadly to patients with other conditions that require technological devices \u2014\u00a0including cardiac devices and insulin pumps.<\/p>\n

During a higher education and research showcase on Tuesday, Litt described the new platform as the product of a collaboration between Penn\u2019s medical and engineering schools that began over a decade ago. He credited Penn President Larry Jameson \u2014 who served as Perelman School of Medicine dean at the time \u2014\u00a0with helping establish the initiative that eventually became Penn\u2019s Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics.<\/p>\n

Jameson opened the showcase by emphasizing the \u201creal power\u201d of \u201cthe intermixing of disciplines\u201d within research \u2014\u00a0describing how collaborations between faculty across the University can lead to \u201csome of the greatest breakthroughs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two other notable presentations at the event focused on the implications of AI in financial markets and the use of emerging technologies in agriculture.<\/p>\n

Wharton professor Itay Goldstein presented research examining the risks of AI-powered trading systems \u2014\u00a0including simulations in which autonomous agents developed manipulative trading strategies despite not communicating with one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we basically find is that collusion emerges among AI agents trading in financial markets,\u201d Goldstein said, raising questions about how regulators can detect anti-competitive behavior as the technology becomes more prominent in financial markets.<\/p>\n

Penn Engineering professor Cherie Kagan showcased agricultural technologies designed to improve crop productivity while reducing resource consumption, including biodegradable sensors and robots that monitor plant health and collect data for farmers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really good at nano, we\u2019re really good at robotics here, and those are tools,\u201d Kagan said. \u201cBut the part is to do it for society, and that\u2019s the farming part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn researchers recently unveiled an artificial intelligence platform that allows patients with epilepsy to communicate directly with their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-307736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}