AdventHealth analyzing data from thousands of COVID-19 patients in hopes of better treating next wave of cases

ORLANDO, Fla. — Across Florida, close to 56,000 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19.

AdventHealth is now sharing details about a new research project that could help save more lives.

So far, the hospital has collected data from the 25,000 COVID-19 patients it has treated so far, which includes everything from people’s ages to their blood types, and what medications they are taking.

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After removing all personal and identifying information, they’re hoping to analyze that information with AI technology,

“to discover relationships between different variables that we’ve never thought about before,” said Steven Smith, AdventHealth’s chief scientific officer.

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Hospital officials hope somewhere in the data might be the answer to why some people are more affected by COVID-19 than others, or why some treatments worked but others did not.

Video: COVID-19 hospitalizations on the rise in Florida AdventHealth officials said they have about 370 people admitted with COVID-19 in their hospitals across Florida and plenty of beds available.