Politico June 20, 2024
Gregory Svirnovskiy, Erin Schumaker, Daniel Payne and Ruth Reader

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AI-powered alerts that warn doctors when their patients’ conditions are in danger of deteriorating could save lives, according to researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

How so? Researchers divided 2,740 Mount Sinai medical-surgical unit patients into two groups, one with artificial intelligence alerts sent live to health care workers and another that monitored patients’ conditions without the benefit of AI. Patients in the AI intervention group were 43 percent more likely to receive a more rapid response and care, including medicine to support their hearts and blood circulation, and were less likely to die within 30 days compared with the control group.

Mt. Sinai uses the AI algorithm in its so-called stepdown units, where stable...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Health System / Hospital, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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