$1.3 million co-investment from Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster for a COVID-19 prediction tool
Toronto. In June 2020, 16 Bit led a project funded by the Digital Technology Supercluster's COVID-19 program to build an AI tool predicting which hospitalized COVID-19 patients would need intensive care or ventilation, with Sunnybrook, Trillium Health Partners, Layer 6, SofTx Innovations, Roche and the Vector Institute.
The project combined clinical data from COVID-19 inpatients at two Ontario hospitals to flag early signs of a severe course. It was 16 Bit’s first large collaborative project with hospital partners, and the Sunnybrook relationship it built carried into the Rho deployments that followed. The COVID-19 tool was a research project, not a commercial product.