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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ED use of electronic sepsis alert systems significantly reduced sepsis-related mortality. Alert systems improved ...

Mobile, Ala.-based USA Health reduced its sepsis mortality rate by 16.5 percent after implementing new Oracle Cerner EHR workflows and alerts algorithms. The health system initiated a performance ...

This article was originally featured in Undark. Ten years ago, 12-year-old Rory Staunton dove for a ball in gym class and scraped his arm. He woke up the next day with a 104 F fever, so his parents ...

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 ...

Researchers developed a machine learning model that could identify children in the ED who were at risk for developing sepsis ...

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 ...

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 ...