Dr.Fu-Shun Hsu, CEO, Heroic-Faith Medical Science
Over the past few years, AI innovation in healthcare has been overwhelming and medical science has improved rapidly, raising life expectancy around the world. As healthcare organizations face unprecedented challenges to improve quality, increase efficiency, eliminate waste, and lower costs, innovation is becoming a major focus once again. Two industry veterans, Mr. Frank Wu and Dr. Hsu Fu-Shun founded Heroic Faith Medical Science, a medical device startup dedicating to pursuing breakthroughs in medical technology to improve patient care. Based on the belief of saving more lives through the holistic understanding of health, Heroic-Faith puts innovation in the right place to make the world a healthier and better place.
Delivering Innovative Integrated Healthcare Systems
The integration of artificial intelligence into critical patient monitoring alleviates the burden and risk confronted by most healthcare workers and thus minimizes the effect of human factors in settings like ICUs, surgical theaters, emergency rooms, and other critical encounters. Heroic-Faith Medical Science deeply believes in the importance of a healthy work environment and the value of workforce resources. The company uses 9th generation Intel® Core™ i7-9700E processor-powered USM-500 edge-computing device to conduct AI analysis and ensure stable, reliable, and efficient AI-based visual and audio processing to continuously monitor breathing which is needed to sustain and treat respiratory patients.
This innovative design has been demonstrated over 300 person-times in a clinical study and well-adapted in monitoring patients under procedural sedation during different procedures such as UGI & LGI endoscopic exams, pediatric dental procedures, and plastic surgeries in Taiwan. By extracting features from the spectrogram, the AI algorithm backed by a pretty collection of auscultatory recordings can recognize and signal abnormal breathing sounds. This innovation can amplify breath sounds, identify abnormal respirations, calculate the rate, and send an alert to physicians when apnea occurs.
“Our dedicated noise-canceling technology eliminates the need for bulky apparatus, reducing the weight of the sensors to less than 5g. This device will be the first in the market that can work with AI to recognize lung activity and detect adventitious sounds,” asserts, Mr. Wu. It can calculate respiratory rate during inhalation, exhalation, airway obstruction, and partial airway obstruction and analyze status. The AI-powered respiratory sound continuous monitoring system accesses at the patient’s bedside and transmits data to conduct AI analysis.
Continuous respiratory monitoring with automated respiratory sound analysis at the bedside is an unmet clinical need. This smart healthcare solution aims to reduce the workload of nursing staff and increase the likelihood of the early diagnosis of dynamic respiratory conditions, all while minimizing the potential of cross-infection in doctors and other hospital staff.
Partnering with Advantech Co., LTD, a global leader in the fields of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms, Heroic Faith Medical is further enhancing innovative AI solutions to assist healthcare professions, patients, and healthcare facilities in the identification and management of respiratory abnormalities
Focusing on Continuous Innovation
Heroic-Faith Medical Science firmly believes in saving lives through Innovation. It has built the first AI-powered continuous respiratory monitor system using an edge-computing application. The company has devoted itself to developing the remote real-time respiratory monitor by integrating the anti-nosing electronic stethoscope and deep learning system. Most importantly, the team is committed to providing a safe and reliable medical practice environment for both patients and medical professionals through innovation.
With its innovative solutions and customer-centric approach, the company has received various awards and accolades over the years. It has been awarded second place in the 2019 RESI Innovation Challenge and 2020 NTPC-AWS Best Innovation Award and was named one of the ten coolest tech startups for 2020 by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, it collaborates extensively with medical centers in Taiwan and clinical laboratories in the U.S., as well as tech giants including Intel and Advantech. The products are moving forward on the regulatory pathway, recently approved by Taiwan FDA (July 2020), and are expecting US FDA clearance in the near future.
Forging ahead, Heroic-Faith Medical Science aims to extend its presence in the US, by cooperating with the Sleep Clinical Center of Stanford University to advance sleep medical research. It also continues to look for relationships with US-based partners and venture firms by attending events such as the CES 2020 Smart Medical Highlights Team Exhibition.“We will continue to carry out our mission and evolve along the road to serve the medical community,” concludes Dr. Fu-Shun.