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.

In marketing materials and internal documents, national electronic health record vendor Epic Systems has touted the ability of its sepsis algorithm to crunch dozens of variables to detect the ...

Each year, sepsis affects more than 30 million people worldwide, causing an estimated six million deaths. Sepsis is the body's extreme response to an infection and is often life-threatening. Since ...

Known as a host-response diagnostic, the cartridge-based blood test and Myrna instrument platform scans for about 30 genetic biomarkers that are activated by the body’s immune system as it fights off ...

Sepsis as a whole accounts for about $62 billion in U.S. hospitalization costs and is more prevalent than heart attacks and stroke combined. It can still go undiagnosed, however, with symptoms similar ...

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 complication of infection known as sepsis is the number one killer in US hospitals. So it’s not surprising that more than 100 health systems use an early warning system offered by Epic Systems, the ...

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 ...

HAMILTON, ON (November 25, 2021) – Each year, sepsis affects more than 30 million people worldwide, causing an estimated six million deaths. Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection and ...