United StatesHealthcare and life sciences2019 – ongoingHCA Healthcare
SPOT real-time sepsis detection and clinician alerts
HCA Healthcare reported using its SPOT sepsis-alert system with 2.5 million patients
Problem
Sepsis symptoms can resemble other illnesses, making early recognition difficult. Care teams needed prompt warnings when changes in patient records suggested deterioration.
Approach
HCA's clinical and technology teams developed SPOT using hospital data and AI techniques. It continuously monitored electronic patient records and alerted care teams to possible sepsis. Clinicians assessed the alerts and decided on treatment.
Results
Takeaway
SPOT connected continuous monitoring to clinical intervention. HCA's estimate of lives saved covered SPOT together with evidence-based care, so it did not isolate the algorithm's contribution.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Goal
- Quality and risk
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
HCA described SPOT's continuous monitoring of patient records and alerts to clinicians. It reported use with 2.5 million patients and estimated 8,000 lives saved through the technology together with clinical interventions over the preceding 5 years.
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