logo-loader

Empower Clinics to partner with Datametrex on a pilot artificial intelligence program

Last updated: 09:22 05 Feb 2019 EST, First published: 09:00 05 Feb 2019 EST

A bottle with CBD and a marijuana plant
Empower runs a network of physician-staffed medical cannabis healthcare clinics and is a leader in hemp-derived CBD extraction, research and development

Empower Clinics Inc (CSE:EPW) announced Tuesday that it intends to partner with Datametrex AI Limited (TSX:DM) and its subsidiary Canntop AI Inc to create a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and gain insights about Empower patient data, physician treatment recommendations and overall long-term efficacy of patient care.

The Canadian company intends to tap Canntop's AI platform to gain “actionable insights” on how consumer social data is generating interest in cannabidiol or CBD-based based products, alternative pain management options and the use of cannabis-based therapies. 

The pilot program will use Empower patient data in a HIPAA compliant manner to determine if data can be generated using Datametrex AI solutions to understand how patient care and physician-guided treatment recommendations are positively impacting patients.

READ: Empower Clinics' acquisition of Sun Valley Clinics expected to create one of the largest clinic groups in US medical cannabis sector

"We believe using AI tools to analyze the substantial amounts of data in the Empower database and the additional data from the recently announced proposed Sun Valley acquisition can make Empower a data science leader in the cannabis industry," said Empower Clinics CEO Steven McAuley. "We believe the outcomes of our AI efforts, if successful, could position the company as an educational leader and we plan to collaborate with the industry to ultimately improve patient care."

Empower Clinics is set to buy Sun Valley Certification Clinics Holdings in a game-changing deal, expected to create one of the largest clinic groups in the medical cannabis sector in the US.

The company runs a network of physician-staffed clinics focused on patient care using medical cannabis. It already has more than 120,000 patients, an expanding clinic footprint and a focus on new technology.

The combined group will boast 12 locations and have a combined patient count of 165,000 across Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Arizona, Nevada and California, and the potential to rapidly expand the clinic network via the Sun Valley franchise program.

"Datametrex has already utilized its Nexalogy AI solution for Health Canada studies in the cannabis sector to understand consumer usage and patterns based on massive social insights generated through channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others," said Datametrex President & COO Jeffrey Stevens. "We believe an AI pilot with Empower has the potential to provide disruptive insights about alternative care options that can be provided to people around the world."

Empower supports remote patients using its tele-medicine portal, enabling patients who do not live near one of its clinics and can’t come to a location, to still benefit from a doctor consultation.

Contact Uttara Choudhury at uttara@proactiveinvestors.com

Follow her on Twitter@UttaraProactive 

 

Novo Resources sees substantial upside potential at Nunyerry

Novo Resources Corp (TSX:NVO, OTCQX:NSRPF, ASX:NVO) co-chair and acting CEO Mike Spreadborough joins Jonathan Jackson in the Proactive studio to discuss promising gold outcomes from recent reanalysis of drill intercepts in a 2023 program at Nunyerry North in Western Australia. Using advanced...

7 hours, 3 minutes ago