PainChek® has been featured in MIT Technology Review in a new article exploring how AI technology is transforming pain assessment and management, highlighting our ongoing commitment to driving innovation in digital healthcare.
The feature highlights how PainChek® is moving beyond traditional, subjective pain scales. By combining AI with human expertise, our multidimensional technology captures facial expressions, behavioural cues and physiological indicators to deliver accurate, actionable pain insights. Smart automation assigns pain intensity to the individual, while carers and clinicians can interpret the results in context.
Cheryl Baird, former Director of Quality and Care at Orchard Care Homes, a PainChek® client that has implemented the technology across its facilities, shared how our technology is enabling care teams to recognise and respond to pain earlier and more accurately:
“We immediately saw the benefits: ease of use, accuracy, and identifying pain that wouldn’t have been spotted using the old scale. I’ve lived with chronic pain and had a hard time getting people to believe me. [PainChek®] would have made a huge difference.”
The article underscores how PainChek® is bridging the gap between scientific research and real-world care to give a voice to those who cannot reliably verbalise pain.
To learn more about how PainChek® could enable best-practice pain management within your organisation, book a one-on-one session with a member of our team.
