AI revolutionizes dialysis care, enhancing treatment plans and patient outcomes

Well, we know when we hear the term AI, it feels like it's kind of everywhere right now. But perhaps the biggest impact AI might be having in the medical field is something you're about to see. Beau Evans with a first-hand look at how one clinic is using that technology to treat dialysis patients. The story's all new for you, right here at 5 o'clock. Anything that can help, it's worth using. Farida Lalani has been running dialysis machines for more than 20 years. AI is now changing the landscape of patient care. The AI is able to look into the patient's, you know, clinical data, not just the present but the past. DeLorean AI analyzes data from back in time and helps doctors create a treatment plan for the future. The approach is innovative for innovative renal care. The AI predicts that this patient might be at a higher risk of hospitalization or missing treatment or whatever, so that helps me kind of focus on those areas. This new technology could help patients like Pesh Patel. I didn't think I was going to make it out of the ICU, I thought that was it. In 2017, while he was on a business trip to Australia, Pesh didn't realize he was having kidney failure. Within two hours of entering the ER, had two blood transfusions and was moved up to ICU. Pesh had only one developed kidney, and that kidney was only operating at 2%. He needed to be on dialysis while he waited for a kidney transplant, which he received in 2018. And then fast forward two and a half years, unfortunately that kidney rejected, so here I am, again back on dialysis and on the transplant waiting list. While Pesh's Dialysis Treatment Center doesn't use DeLorean AI's technology, he's advocating for them to be in every dialysis clinic in the country. When DeLorean AI is implemented, it's going to really help facilitate better patient care, and it's going to help, I think, create more efficiencies within the dialysis units. And he hopes that leads to better outcomes and longer lives for dialysis patients. You're not alone, help is here, don't be afraid. Beau Evans, CBS News, Texas.