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sepsis
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Deadly infections cost Medicare billions
As the number of sepsis cases among hospitalized patients rises dramatically, the cost to public and private insurers is also skyrocketing: The newest hospital payment data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services put the cost to Medicare in the billions.
EHRs can accurately predict sepsis
Electronic health records can be an effective way to predict the onset of sepsis, a leading cause of death and hospitalization in the United States, according to a study published at the Journal of...
Mount Sinai EMR program slashes sepsis deaths
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City is expanding a successful sepsis-reduction program hospitalwide in January after a test program using alerts generated by electronic medical records cut sepsis rates by 40 percent, the Canadian Medical Association Journal reported.
