St. Luke’s University Health Network is using artificial intelligence across all of its hospitals to monitor patients around the clock and intervene before medical conditions worsen — an approach that has significantly reduced cardiac arrests and emergency transfers to intensive care.
All medical-surgical units at St. Luke’s employ Epic’s Deterioration Index, a proprietary AI tool that analyzes real-time data such as heart rate, blood pressure, breathing patterns, lab results, patient age and nursing documentation across the network’s 16 campuses. The system continuously calculates a patient’s risk of decline and relays that information to the St. Luke’s Virtual Response Center.
There, registered nurses monitor the AI-generated scores and alert bedside nurses, nursing supervisors or the rapid response team when a patient’s condition appears to be deteriorating…