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A leading cause of death in the United States, sepsis results in 750,000 fatalities each year. With annual treatment costs estimated to be $20 billion, sepsis tops the list of the most expensive conditions to treat. Because health care organizations have difficulty diagnosing the life-threatening complication in a timely way, individuals who develop the condition while in the hospital often experience treatment delays and subsequently poor outcomes.

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Sean Benson, Vice President of Innovation at Wolters Kluwer Health joined Intrepid Now once again to provide an Update on Saving Lives with Predictive Analytics.

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“Evaluating the Impact of a Computerized Surveillance Algorithm and Decision Support System on Sepsis Mortality,” appeared in the June print edition of The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). This study examined how clinicians at Alabama’s Huntsville Hospital decreased sepsis-related deaths by 53 percent during a 10-month period using a combination of clinical change management and electronic alerting from POC Advisor, a highly-accurate clinical decision support (CDS) software.

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It’s been just a few weeks since boxing legend and activist Mohamand Ali died of sepsis, a condition that still remains greatly a mystery to many outside and inside healthcare.

In our previous worked focusing upon sepsis, we learned several discrepancies exist in incidence and mortality reporting due to the host of definitions and terminologies used for sepsis in the field.

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Automated surveillance and real-time analysis led to a significant reduction in sepsis mortality at Alabama’s Huntsville Hospital, according to research recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

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A pair of clinical informaticist consultants found clinical decision support (CDS) systems to have a positive impact on identifying instances of sepsis and reducing sepsis mortality at an Alabama hospital.

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Americans are more concerned about sepsis than ever before in the Internet age.

Some of that heightened awareness came recently, after Patty Duke’s family went public about the fact that she died from the condition. The day the news broke, Google searches for the word “sepsis” spiked 827 percent. Recent spikes in search terms like “sepsis symptoms” and “what is sepsis” clearly indicate an interest in the condition and how people can protect themselves.

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Sepsis may be one of the biggest killers in the U.S., yet it is not a condition with which many average Americans are familiar. Nevertheless, hospitals are always looking for new ways to catch and treat sepsis as early as possible, to improve patient outcomes and reduce mortality rates.

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Historically, sepsis has been one of the most important medical conditions in the United States, yet it is not properly appreciated by many in terms of its real significance. Unlike heart disease and cancer, where most people at least generally know about the tremendous number of deaths and the financial impacts they create, sepsis is somewhat of a mystery to the general public.

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Aiming to improve sepsis outcomes, Halifax Health has implemented Wolters Kluwer POC Advisor clinical decision support platform in its emergency department.

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Implementation of a cloud-based alerting system and change management were associated with a 53% drop in sepsis mortality in a single-site study.

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Sepsis is the most common cause of death in hospital critical care units, but Huntsville Hospital is using new technology to lower mortality rates.

Doctors and nurses aren't using new medications or scans, but instead they took part in a study with global healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer. Workers received iPod Touches, and installed the company's Sepsis Module on their POC Advisor platform.

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In this series, we are featuring some of the thousands of vendors who will be participating in the HIMSS15 conference and trade show. Through it, we hope to offer readers a closer look at some of the solution providers who will either be in attendance – with a booth showcasing and displaying key products and offerings – or that will have a presence of some kind at the show – key executives in attendance or presenting, for example.

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HIMSS organizers, in preparation of its annual conference and trade show and as a way to rally attendees around several trending topics for the coming show, asked the healthcare community how it feels about several key issues. I’ve reached out to readers of this site so they can respond to what they see as the future of healthcare innovation, data security, patient engagement and big data.

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