Sepsis is one of the deadliest conditions a hospital patient can encounter. St. Luke’s University Health Network, based in Bethlehem, Pa., is one of the nation’s leaders in helping to prevent it.
St. Luke’s uses a dynamic mix of both human and artificial intelligence (AI) monitoring to achieve some of the best sepsis compliance and sepsis survival rates in the nation.
“We utilize the Epic Sepsis Model – predictive AI – in the background, along with programming engineered by St. Luke’s, to monitor every patient every moment of the day for rising risk,” said Charles Sonday, St. Luke’s Associate Chief Medical Information Officer. “If a patient rises above a certain threshold … an alert goes to both the provider and the nurse to examine that patient and begin treatment.”…