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Epic Risk Model Moderately Successful at Predicting Acute Kidney Injury

March 4, 2024 - Researchers from Mass General Brigham Digital demonstrated that the commercially available, machine learning-based Epic Risk of hospital-acquired acute kidney injury (HA-AKI) model is moderately successful at predicting the condition, according to a study published recently in NEJM AI. The Epic Risk of HA-AKI model works by combing inpatient...


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Epic Sepsis Model Predictions May Have Limited Clinical Utility

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of Michigan have demonstrated that the Epic Sepsis Model’s risk stratification accuracy was significantly impacted by whether its predictions were restricted to...

Familiar Names Sweep Best in KLAS for Data Analytics, CDS

by Jessica Kent

This year’s Best in KLAS report contained few surprises, with well-known vendors continuing to dominate in areas like data analytics, business intelligence, and clinical decision support. Epic...

Top Challenges of Applying Artificial Intelligence to Medical Imaging

by Jessica Kent

Among the many possible applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare, medical imaging is perhaps the most promising. When used to decode the complicated nature of MRIs, CT scans, and other testing modalities,...

Private Sector Coalition to Combat COVID-19 with Real-Time Data

by Jessica Kent

Private sector organizations have partnered to form the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, a collaborative effort that aims to provide real-time data analytics to help those on the front lines of the...

Vanderbilt Launches New Clinical Informatics, Data Center

by Jessica Kent

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has launched the new Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC), which will promote and support collaborations in clinical informatics across the...

Best in KLAS Ranks Top Vendors for Population Health, Analytics

by Jessica Kent

The 2020 Best in KLAS report has ranked Epic Systems as number one in the Overall Software Suite category for the tenth consecutive year. The company was also named the top Overall Physician Practice...

Nurses Play a Critical Role in EHR Optimization, Data Governance

by Jennifer Bresnick

Most healthcare organizations have now celebrated at least a handful of anniversaries with their electronic health records, and are now coming to the realization that implementation was only the start...

Faulkner Guides Epic Systems from EHR to Comprehensive Health Record

by Jennifer Bresnick

Epic Systems founder and CEO Judy Faulkner has a reputation for big ideas. And with some of the top health systems in the country among her customers and around two-thirds of patients owning a current Epic record, the company and its...

Judy Faulkner: Epic Is Changing the Big Data, Interoperability Game

by Jennifer Bresnick

In the flashy, crowded, dizzyingly large vendor halls at the annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, attendees tend to find their way around by using some of the biggest, tallest, or most unique booths as a compass.  A left at...