Innovate UK has awarded a £300k+ SMART grant to Exeter HealthTech Research Centre and Sanome to advance AI-enabled early detection of hospital-acquired infections.

The funding supports the co-design and roll-out of MEMORI, a Class IIb CE-certified SaMD platform, tailored to local clinical teams and systems.

MEMORI analyses multimodal clinical data in real-time to accurately predict the risk of hospital-acquired infections, alerting clinical teams up to seven days before signs of infection.

The grant will also support enhancements to MEMORI’s existing capabilities by allowing the integration of additional clinical data sources and further optimisation of its machine-learning models to improve accuracy and scalability.