Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Baton Rouge General will deploy POC AdvisorTM, leveraging its clinical surveillance and analytics to reduce sepsis mortality and morbidity rates. The clinical intelligence platform will be a central component of the 'Most Wired' hospital's overall clinical and technology strategy.
POC Advisor delivers accurate, real-time sepsis alerts and advice to clinicians at the point of care. The platform aggregates and normalises patient data from disparate clinical systems and automatically analyses the information using hundreds of rules that account for possible comorbidities and medication abnormalities, maximising accuracy and preventing alert fatigue. POC Advisor has demonstrated unrivaled sensitivity (95%) and specificity (82%) of alerts as documented in a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). The study also found that it reduced sepsis mortality by 50 percent and related 30-day readmissions by 30 percent, while also lowering lengths of stay. At present, it is the only sepsis solution scientifically proven to improve outcomes.
Rated by CareChex in the top 2 percent of hospitals nationwide for overall medical care this year, Baton Rouge General has 588 licensed beds between two campuses, offering care from neonatal intensive care to hospice. In addition to multiple patient safety awards from Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades, Baton Rouge was named a 2017 'Most Wired' hospital by Hospitals & Health Networks. POC Advisor was chosen for its robust surveillance capabilities that exceeded those of its current electronic health record (EHR) system.
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