In a Sept. 30 op-ed for The Daily Advance, Daniel Mulcrone, MD, a critical care intensivist at Sentara, highlighted the new tool, named the “Sepsis Sniffer.”
Sentara’s clinical business intelligence division recently designed and rolled out the tool, which helps clinicians more quickly spot cases of sepsis by helping pinpoint subtle clues that otherwise may go unnoticed in a clinical environment. COVID-19 is also emerging as a major contributor to sepsis in hospitalized patients, Dr. Mulcrone said.
In 2019, Sentara also partnered with Jvion, a data analytics company, to create an algorithm that can process 4,500 patient data points in real time to help predict the development of sepsis. With the technology, clinicians will receive an alert on their EHR screen if the algorithm determines the patient is at imminent risk for sepsis, allowing hospital staff to intervene and take action to prevent sepsis from occurring.
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