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Ensuring Early, Accurate, and Prescriptive Care to Improve Sepsis Outcomes
Via Sepsis Alliance, Sepsis Coordinator Network, Sponsor Innovation Webinar Early identification of sepsis and adherence to treatment bundles may reduce mortality by approximately one third, making surveillance a crucial component of sepsis initiatives1. Unfortunately, traditional electronic surveillance to detect sepsis tends not to work; meta-analysis2 of traditional sepsis alerting studies shows no improvement in mortality, […]
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Why your EHR is not the answer to improve sepsis outcomes for your hospital
A highly-complex condition to diagnose and treat, sepsis is a prime target for technological intervention beyond the EHR. However, as is true in most forms of health IT, not all solutions are equal. Despite the early nature of this market, there are solutions that have a track record of delivering provable and repeatable outcomes reducing sepsis mortality, morbidity and cost of care.
White Paper
Are You Prepared for Hospital Sepsis Scores to Go Public?
Long before CMS announced that, come July 25, 2018, it would publicly display sepsis scores on its Hospital Compare public portal, hospitals in the United States were painfully aware of the human and financial costs of the condition.
Webinar
CMS Sepsis Reporting Is Going Public, Are You Ready?
Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is making hospital sepsis scores public, the need to address sepsis in your own organization is more urgent than ever. This webinar will address the CMS timing for sepsis public reporting, factors for slow progress in battling sepsis, and how POC Advisor can help make a positive impact in patient care and outcomes.
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Sepsis Performance Going Public: What You Need to Know
With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publicly reporting hospital sepsis scores starting in July 2018, there’s a new sense of urgency for hospitals to address increasing cases of sepsis. Find out what your hospital can do to prepare for this new development in sepsis reporting, and learn what steps you can take to improve your own sepsis management.
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Halifax Health: Interoperability & Active Screening Keys to Optimizing Sepsis Strategy
For many hospitals, the decision to re-assess the tools they use for their sepsis strategy is made only after every other avenue with their EHR has been exhausted. Many will seek out third-party sepsis solutions that integrate with their existing EHR, and perhaps even other clinical systems like pharmacy and labs, to gain faster access […]
White Paper
Evaluating the Impact of a Computerized Surveillance Algorithm and Decision Support System on Sepsis Mortality
Sepsis is a leading cause of death in the United States. Annually, there are 750 000 deaths from severe sepsis in the United States. A significant financial burden is associated with treating septic patients; the estimated treatment cost is around $20 billion annually in the United States, making sepsis the costliest medical condition to treat […]
Webinar
The Importance of Matching the CDS Delivery Mechanism to Clinician Workflow
Successful CDS delivery requires targeting the most appropriate clinical workflow. This varies based on the clinical staff, care setting and underlying technology infrastructure. This webinar will educate attendees on how to maximize the impact of CDS by matching it to the proper workflow.
White Paper
Best Practices: The Impact of Mobile Point-of-Care Decision Support on Sepsis Treatment and Outcomes at Huntsville Hospital
This White Paper discusses findings from an IDC Health Insights case study conducted on behalf of Wolters Kluwer Health (WKH) to assess the impact of its POC Advisor clinical decision support product on sepsis identification and treatment at Huntsville Hospital. The POC Advisor product has been in use at Huntsville Hospital on two floors since […]
Webinar
A Sepsis Solution: Reducing Mortality By 50% Using Advanced Decision Support
In this webinar, learn how Huntsville Hospital, a 941-bed facility in Alabama, combined change management protocols with point-of-care alerting from POC Advisor to reduce sepsis mortality by 53% and sepsis-related 30-day readmissions by 30%.
