Becker's Healthcare August 29, 2024
Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare developed an Epic application that alerts clinicians when patients with sepsis might benefit from a different treatment.
The health system created the artificial intelligence algorithm to suggest which patients might be good candidates to switch from traditional saline IV fluids to balanced crystalloids at the time of the fluid order.
So far, over 70% of Emory providers have accepted the recommendation in Epic and changed treatments.
“Our physicians always make the final call over any data and AI algorithm,” Emory Chief Data and AI Officer Joe Depa told Becker’s. “They can choose to opt in or opt out of the trial at any time.”
Emory has been researching the tool as part of its PRECISE (Precision Resuscitation...
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