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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beckman Coulter, Inc., a Danaher company, today announced that it has initially been awarded a contract of $1.25 million, with potential to be awarded an additional $6.5 million if all contract ...

This may sound like an intimidating technical topic, but I’m going to keep it simple. I went to public schools, so I’m going to leave the complicated math to MIT graduates.[2] Before I dive into the ...