Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a strategic partnership with The Altos Group to advance development of an innovative sepsis mortality reduction programme. Hospitals are currently being enrolled to serve as pilot sites in the programme, which brings together mobile technology, actionable clinical content and clinical change management to enable early sepsis identification and intervention.
The Altos Group is a consulting firm that partners with healthcare institutions to implement change management programmes that substantially improve patient outcomes. Headed by Julie A. Kliger, the firm’s methodology and services have proven particularly effective at impacting sepsis rates. In one case, which was profiled recently by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a 54.5% reduction in average mortality rates was achieved within three years across nine California hospitals.
The sepsis mortality reduction programme focuses on early detection and applying best practices to treating the septic patient. In addition to reducing overall patient mortality, costs and lengths of stay, the goal of the programme is to identify and address the top healthcare-associated infections (HAI) that drive sepsis mortality. This will be accomplished through a three-pronged approach that couples mobile software with actionable content, driven by WK Health's trusted brands as UpToDate, Lexicomp, ProVation Order Sets, and Sentri7, supplemented by change management consulting services.
