Hospital patients are at risk of a number of life-threatening complications, especially sepsis—a condition that can kill within hours and contributes to one out of three in-hospital deaths in the U.S.

Epic has made changes to its sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy and make its alerts more meaningful to clinicians. An Epic spokesperson told Becker’s in an emailed statement that ...

Sepsis is an overwhelming infection: bacterial, viral, or fungal. It requires immediate medical attention and intervention. EPIC, the company with the largest share of the electronic medical records ...

A new computer-based decision support tool for sepsis at HCA Healthcare harnesses pivotal data in real time. HCA Healthcare has developed an effective computer-based decision support tool for the ...

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 ...

Dr. Goodwin: Studies have shown that treating sepsis as early as possible dramatically improves outcomes. In fact, most of ...