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The use of algorithms has saved lives at the University of Missouri Health Care. The health system put in place an early-warning system tied to the EHR to alert rapid-response teams of a patient's risk for developing sepsis, a life-threatening infection. One of every three patients who dies in the hospital has sepsis, according to information given at the HIMSS22 session,
To get staff on board with digital transformation, everyone who will be using the system must be included in decision-making, according to Dr. John Chessare, president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Healthcare System. How it usually works, he said during HIMSS22, is that "you get a group of people to decide something and then send an email out to everyone."
Healthcare institutions can anticipate reaping clinical, operational and financial benefits from enabling their clinicians with AI-powered decision support solutions to make informed decisions along patients’ disease pathways. To get there, alignment and teamwork between information technology, clinicians and service lines is essential. During this informative presentation, University of Missouri Health’s CIO and Associate CMO share perspectives from their “C” seats on the challenges clinical decision support solutions can address, the coordination needed to implement these AI-powered...