Risk Management
PSV wanted earlier warning of player overload and upper respiratory infection because infections can spread before symptoms appear and traditional sports monitoring focuses on what has already happened rather than what is likely to happen next.
Reported impact
PSV is testing the system to identify overload or infection earlier, enabling faster intervention through training-load adjustments or earlier medical checks, with the goal of preventing illness-related disruption and optimizing recovery.
PSV is piloting Philips' patented RATE algorithm as a predictive health-monitoring workflow for elite football operations. In the implementation described, player biometric data from wearables is the ingestion layer: Philips analyzes subtle changes in those signals to detect patterns that may precede overload or upper respiratory infection before symptoms are visible. The main compute component is the RATE algorithm, which generates early-warning risk indications rather than retrospective reports. Those outputs are served to PSV's medical staff so they can intervene sooner by adjusting training load or initiating an earlier medical check. The page does not identify a named storage platform or orchestration product, but it does explain that the algorithm lineage was previously developed on Philips infection datasets and later adapted to commercial off-the-shelf wearables, giving the PSV deployment a validated model foundation that Philips is further refining through this live sports use case.
Player biometric data from wearables is captured before symptoms appear and fed into Philips' RATE algorithm, which analyzes subtle physiological changes and produces early-warning signals for overload or infection. PSV medical staff review those outputs and can respond by adjusting training load or ordering an earlier medical check, while Philips uses the deployment to further refine the model.
"A 2022 study ... showed how, in a cohort of 9,381 DoD personnel, the algorithm was able to detect COVID-19 infection on average 2.3 days before a positive test and up to six days prior."
"Historically data in sports focuses on what has already happened with this technology the medical staff can focus on what is going to happen and keep players on peak performance."
"PSV is the first sports team in the world to use advanced AI technology from Philips to predict upcoming overload or infections."
"The first version of the RATE algorithm, developed in 2019, used large-scale data science, machine learning, and trade-space analyses across demographics and 163 different biomarkers ... from a rich Philips data set of over 36,000 cases of hospital-acquired infections."
"The innovation being tested at PSV ... is based on a Philips-developed and patented algorithm (the RATE algorithm) that can recognize early signals of (upper) respiratory infections using data from wearables."
"This would allow us to intervene sooner, for example by adjusting training load or performing a medical check earlier. AI helps us recognize these signals earlier in the data from players' wearables."
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