Agent Health is the fusion of artificial intelligence and Healthcare expertise. We develop innovative solutions that will address the needs of a new generation of patients and healthcare specialists living in orbit and beyond. The spirit of the Apollo program inspired us to bridge the gap between deep space exploration, technology, and healthcare, leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and connected devices. AGH is determined to solve some of the most pressing challenges in space medicine while contributing to improving remote care here on Earth.
In the years to come, human exploration of space will gradually move from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to cis-lunar space, back to the surface of the Moon, and eventually to more remote, yet promising destinations like the red planet, Mars.
Understanding of human spaceflight risks, while contributing to improving remote medicine and technology integration to healthcare setting is our priority. Our AI-driven solutions aim to benefit the few humans that can fly and those supporting them from the ground while addressing the challenges of the fastest growing healthcare segment here on earth, elderly care.
To this day, complex medical or surgical procedures haven’t taken place on shuttle missions or the space station. This will likely change when we start exploring what lies beyond LEO. There are still many challenges to developing practical tools to increase the medical autonomy of space crews and provide robust monitoring, diagnostic and therapeutic support in deep space. Our AI-driven healthcare solutions are meant to solve these challenges and support effectively the deployment of reliable medical and surgical capabilities to humans in outer space.
DEVELOPING AI-DRIVEN HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS FOR DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION
Four main areas of Research & Development that AGH is invested in:
- Microgravity
- Isolation and confinement
- Hostile and closed environments
- Radiation
MICROGRAVITY
The impact of changing gravity fields and low pressures
- Spatial orientation, head-eye and hand-eye coordination, balance, locomotion
- Motion sickness
- Bone loss and osteoporosis-related fractures
- Loss of muscle strength, mass and endurance
- Cardiovascular de-conditioning, reduce blood volume and changes in vascular compliance
- Kidney stones
- Medications reacting differently
- Nutritional state and hydration
- Decompression sickness
- Decreased reflexes
- Changes in the shape of the eyeball itself secondary to fluid shifts, swelling of the optic nerve, changes in vision
- Reduced CSF resorption
- Blood loss and contamination of wounds during surgery
Opportunities for AI integration
- AI guided ultrasound scans with anatomy landmarks, image analysis and predictive diagnosis
- Predictive engine of most likely medical events in the next 6, 12, 18, 36 months
- Predictive analysis how body changes in weightlessness
- Detection and correction of the effects of space on balance and performance.
- Fine motor skills testing and adaptive monitoring
- Fluid monitoring / urine output
- Radiological assistant for (spinal) ultrasounds analysis
- Adaptive personal fitness assistant
- Pharmaceutical assistant
- Adaptive nutritional assistant
- Sensory motor skills training and monitoring
- Predictive manufacturing of saline and fluids for emergency management
ISOLATION AND CONFINEMENT
Managing isolation and confinement
- Behavioral issues secondary to being in a small space over a long time
- Stress caused by prolonged isolation and confinement
- A decline in mood, cognition, morale, or interpersonal interactions
- Sleep disorder and impacts on circadian rhythm
- Depression, fatigue and monotony linked heavy workloads and shifting schedules
- Misunderstandings and impaired communications
- Lack of fresh food, variety, and deficiency in nutrition
- Third-quarter effect
Opportunities for AI integration
- Predicting hardware failure and parts replacement
- Predictive monitoring of sleep and alertness
- Personalization of Light-Emitting Diode (LED) technology to help align circadian rhythms
- Predictive assessment of the effects of fatigue on performance
- Predicting and addressing behavioral challenges through NLP driven engines
Ai-driven planning towards self-sufficiency (skills, procedures, equipment, and medication)
Providing untrained people without real-time communication, the autonomy to deliver superior medical and surgical care in outerspace.
HOSTILE AND CLOSED ENVIRONMENTS
Living in potentially hostile and closed environment
- Increased transferability of endogenous flora and microorganisms
- Stress hormone levels elevation
- Changes in immune system response is altered, increasing susceptibility to allergies and other diseases
- Living and working quarters that should be carefully designed (too hot, too cold, cramped, crowded, very loud, not well lit)
- Constant noise level of 72 A-weighted decibels affecting physiological or psychological performance causing changes vascular, brain, pulmonary, renal and skeletal systems
Opportunities for AI integration
- Autonomous monitoring air quality as well as atmosphere for gases (formaldehyde, ammonia, and carbon monoxide)
- Autonomous urine and blood samples analysis
- Predictive warnings of dormant viruses reactivation and infectious illnesses like the Epstein-Barr virus
- Predictive risk assessment of disease eclosions through an automated analysis of the microbial environment (space station and crew)
- Smart monitoring to identify immune system changes through an automated analysis of blood, saliva, and urine samples
- AI-generated living quarters and work environment design to ensure comfort and efficiency
RADIATION
Minimizing the impact of radiations
- Increase risks of cancer, cataracts, and sterility
- Damage to the central nervous system, with altered cognitive function, reduced motor function, and behavioral changes
- Radiation sickness leading to nausea, vomiting, anorexia, and fatigue
degenerative tissue diseases - Impact on medicines, and nutrients and pharmaceutical value of compounds
Opportunities for AI integration
- Smart monitoring and procedures to control radiation risks for the crew
- Real-time prediction of radiation affecting biological systems (quantitative and qualitative)
- Proactive monitoring of radiation effects during EVAs
- AI-driven identification of biological countermeasures.
- Intelligent Monitoring 24 hours per day without reliance on SRAG and NOAA