Becker's Healthcare April 3, 2024
EHR vendor Epic’s AI-powered sepsis model, which is used by hundreds of hospitals in the U.S., has faced scrutiny, CNBC reported April 3.
Epic’s model is used to predict sepsis, a potentially life-threatening bloodstream infection. But in 2023, a study published in JAMA found that the tool missed a higher share of true cases and was less timely than other sepsis tools.
According to the researchers who conducted the study, Epic’s model was found to be more accurate than other models at higher threshold prediction, but it missed a higher share of true cases and was less timely than the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome tool and the Sepsis-Related Organ Failure Assessment tool.
In June 2022, Epic told Becker’s...
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