Innovate UK awards over £300k SMART grant to Exeter HealthTech Research Centre and Sanome to advance AI-enabled early detection of hospital-acquired infections

Funding supports the co-design and roll-out of MEMORI, a Class IIb CE-certified SaMD platform, tailored to local clinical teams and systems

  • MEMORI analyses multimodal clinical data in real-time to accurately predict the risk of hospital-acquired infections, alerting clinical teams up to seven days before signs of infection.
  • The grant will also support enhancements to MEMORI’s existing capabilities by allowing the integration of additional clinical data sources and further optimisation of its machine-learning models to improve accuracy and scalability.
  • Hospital-acquired infections account for more than 20% of NHS bed days each year, with up to 55% considered preventable.

A collaboration between the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) in Sustainable Innovation and UK healthtech company Sanome has secured an Innovate UK SMART grant of over £300,000 to co-design the evolution of MEMORI, an AI-powered clinical decision support platform for earlier detection of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs)…

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