HealthTech May 22, 2024
Health systems build specialized centers to test and deploy artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other cutting-edge technologies.
UC San Diego Health’s Jacobs Center for Health Innovation (JCHI) has made an immediate impact on patient care. It recently collaborated with leaders across the health organization to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) sepsis prediction algorithm, helping reduce sepsis deaths by 17 percent in its emergency departments.
The center, which launched in 2021 with seed money from the university, has also deployed an at-home patient monitoring program in which medical teams remotely monitor vital signs and proactively reach out to patients via virtual visits if needed.
Now, the center is building a round-the-clock command center that will allow cross-functional teams at its 364-bed...