CanadaHealthcare and life sciences2020 – ongoingUnity Health Toronto
CHARTWatch inpatient deterioration alerts
Unity Health reported 26% lower unanticipated mortality after CHARTWatch deployment
Problem
Unexpected deterioration could send hospitalized patients to intensive care. Clinicians needed earlier warnings to prioritize assessment.
Approach
St. Michael's Hospital developed CHARTWatch to analyze electronic medical-record data and flag deterioration risk. High-risk alerts prompted senior assessment and closer nursing observation. Researchers compared outcomes before and after deployment on the general internal medicine ward.
Results
Takeaway
The reported association covered the prediction system and clinical response together. It did not isolate the model's effect from changes in care.
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
Unity Health reported lower unanticipated mortality after deploying CHARTWatch. It described alerts linked to assessment and closer monitoring.
Unity Health dated the original deployment to 2020. It also described adaptation for another hospital.
Full details are in the original sources.