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46 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT & MEASUREMENT How Kaiser, HCA, Geisinger + more are using AI to save lives By Naomi Diaz H ospitals are using artifi cial intelligence in emergency rooms, inpatient wards and intensive care units to help identify and treat patients at highest risk for sepsis and an impending cardiac arrest or stroke, The Wall Street Journal reported April 10. Here are fi ve AI projects health systems' have created and deployed to help patients, accord- ing to the Journal: 1. Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Hos- pital created Sepsis Watch, a deep learning model that provides an early warning system within Duke Health for patients who are at risk of sepsis. The model can predict sepsis quickly and accurately with data from the hospital's own patient records. 2. Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente developed a predictive model called Advance Alert Monitor, that scans patient data continu- ously, assigning scores that predict the risk of transfer to the ICU or death. 3. HCA Healthcare developed a predictive algorithm, Spot — for Sepsis Prediction and Op- timization of Therapy, to continuously monitor vital signs, lab results, nursing reports and other data — fi ring an alert directly to nurses at the moment signals converge that indicate impend- ing sepsis. The algorithm was able to detect sepsis six hours earlier and more accurately than clinicians. 4. HCA also developed the Next-Gen Analyt- ics for Treatment and Effi ciency, which uses machine learning to detect other critical or life-threatening conditions such as shock in trauma patients, complications after surgery and early signs of deterioration in all patients. 5. Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System partnered with Medial EarlySign to identify pa- tients overdue for a colorectal-cancer screening. They also used a machine-learning algorithm to fl ag those at higher risk and were able to sched- ule screenings for 68.1 percent of the patients fl agged. n States ranked by suicide rate By Mackenzie Bean W yoming had the highest suicide rate of all U.S. states in 2020, accord- ing to a ranking Kaiser Family Foundation released April 12. To calculate age-adjusted suicide rates, Kaiser Family Foundation used data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. e national age-adjusted suicide rate was 13.5 per 100,000 people in 2020. Here's how each state and the District of Columbia stack up Note: e list includes ties and results in a numerical listing of 44. 1. Wyoming — 30.5 suicides per 100,000 2. Alaska — 27.2 3. Montana — 25.9 4. New Mexico — 24.2 5. Idaho — 23.2 6. Oklahoma — 21.9 7. Colorado — 21.5 8. South Dakota — 21.1 9. Utah — 20.8 10. West Virginia — 19.5 11. Arkansas — 19.2 12. Kansas — 18.4 13. Oregon — 18.3 14. Nevada — 18.2 15. Iowa — 18.1 Missouri — 18.1 North Dakota — 18.1 16. Vermont — 17.9 17. Kentucky — 17.7 18. Arizona — 17.6 19. Tennessee — 17.1 20. New Hampshire — 16.4 21. Maine — 16.3 South Carolina — 16.3 22. Alabama — 15.9 23. Washington — 15.2 24. Indiana — 15 25. Nebraska — 14.9 26. Wisconsin — 14.5 27. Michigan — 13.9 Mississippi — 13.9 28. Louisiana — 13.8 Ohio — 13.8 29. Georgia — 13.7 30. Virginia — 13.4 31. Texas — 13.3 32. North Carolina — 13.2 33. Florida — 13.1 Minnesota — 13.1 34. Hawaii — 12.9 35. Pennsylvania — 12.6 36. Delaware — 12.1 37. Illinois — 10.5 38. California — 10 39. Connecticut — 9.3 40. Maryland — 9.2 41. Massachusetts — 8.4 Rhode Island — 8.4 42. New York — 8 43. New Jersey — 7.1 44. District of Columbia — 5.4 n