A North Carolina hospital system is making significant strides in reducing sepsis cases by using predictive analytics to standardize clinical workflows and to create a new Sepsis Watch program.
Each year, at least 1.7 million adults in the United States develop sepsis, and approximately 350,000 will die from the serious blood infection that can trigger a life-threatening chain reaction throughout the entire body.
For the second time, Ochsner Health has been awarded the prestigious HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence.
Flosonics Medical, a leader in wearable medical ultrasound, announced that Sutter Health, an integrated not-for-profit system based in Northern California, will implement FloPatch, the world’s first wireless, wearable Doppler ultrasound
Healthcare and technology professionals will gather for two days of thought-provoking panels, visionary keynotes, expert-led education sessions, interactive networking, live solution demos, real-world case studies and more at the 2024 HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, Sept. 5-6 in Boston.
A large nationally representative study shows in-hospital delivery-related maternal mortality rates improved 57% between 2008 and 2021, despite identified increases in severe maternal morbidity (SMM). This observational study of over 11 million hospital discharges, conducted by the HHS Office on Women’s Health (OWH) and published in JAMA Open Network , intends to more clearly define trends and risk factors leading to maternal mortality and morbidity in the United States and to improve overall national prevention and treatment efforts.
The first-ever randomized clinical trial linked to registry data from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) shows that for patients undergoing pancreatoduodenectomy, also known as the Whipple procedure, a change in antibiotics before the procedure reduces the rate of surgical site infections (SSIs). The findings were published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
With a generous $22 million in gifts from Joan and Irwin Jacobs, UC San Diego Health will bring its Center for Health Innovation into full reality.
VCU Health has a new program that will allow patients to receive acute, hospital-level care from within the comfort of their homes. The Home Hospital program is the first of its kind in central Virginia and aims to serve nearly nearly 2,000 patients during its first year.
The availability of technology for continuous temperature monitoring presents an opportunity to remove the human element from temperature taking, thereby reducing error and improving patient safety. Current inpatient care relies heavily on vital sign measurement to monitor for clinical deterioration. Temperature is one of the four primary vital signs and aids in assessing common complications, like sepsis–a leading cause of in-hospital death (Rhee).