An innovative artificial intelligence-based system, PANDA (Pediatric AI Navigation and Decision Assistant), has begun its first pilot at Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel (SCMCI) in Petah Tikva, marking a first-of-its-kind clinical deployment in Israel. The project is designed to provide pediatricians with immediate support for clinical decisions based on the hospital’s extensive internal protocol database.

“The idea for PANDA started with residents at Schneider,” Dr. Shai Yitzhaki, a pediatrician and health-tech innovation advisor at the hospital, told TPS-IL.

Yitzhaki, the system’s initiator, explained that PANDA was developed in response to the everyday challenges faced by pediatricians navigating more than 600 clinical protocols across the hospital’s units. Until now, locating the right treatment guidelines required time-consuming manual searches, potentially slowing critical care. The new system allows clinicians to ask clinical questions in free language and receive immediate answers drawn exclusively from Schneider’s internal protocols.