Epic’s sepsis early warning system, which notifies clinicians of potential signs of sepsis in their patients, sent out an overload of alerts during the COVID-19 pandemic that may have contributed to ...

Sepsis, an overwhelming infection, remains among hospitals’ most difficult conditions to identify and treat. Algorithms within electronic medical records have been developed to help clinicians. So how ...

The most popular data are vital signs, which include such things as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and so forth. Often these data are fed into the EHR ...

HAMILTON, ON (November 25, 2021) – Each year, sepsis affects more than 30 million people worldwide, causing an estimated six million deaths. Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection and ...

Sepsis is a deadly reaction to infection, one that can cause runaway inflammation and a cascade of organ damage. It is estimated to kill at least 350,000 Americans per year. Early detection of this ...

The Sepsis “Sniffer” Algorithm, a digital sepsis alert embedded in an EHR, is a useful tool but it may not be a viable alternative to the Nurse Screening Tool, a manual sepsis alert, according to a ...

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Epic Systems has an AI algorithm that helps doctors in detecting sepsis before it even progresses or heads to the worsening of a patient that would most likely end up in a bad situation. Laboratory ...

Artificial intelligence algorithms are everywhere in healthcare. They sort through patients’ data to predict who will develop medical conditions like heart disease or diabetes, they help doctors ...

The biggest electronic health record company in the United States, Epic Systems, claims it can solve a major problem for hospitals: identifying signs of sepsis, an often deadly complication from ...

Each year, sepsis affects more than 30 million people worldwide, causing an estimated six million deaths. Sepsis is the body's extreme response to an infection and is often life-threatening. Since ...