Philanthropists Joan and Irwin Jacobs help pay for center to aggregate streams of digital information
With artificial intelligence rapidly changing health care, UC San Diego Health is planning to treat the situation with a level of attention usually reserved for rocket launches and wildfires.
“It was kind of decided, well, we’re getting all of this data, but none of it’s really connected. We need to get it into one place including not just the hospital system, but also from outside, and then have a few different types of people in there who can react very quickly to what they’re seeing,” Jacobs said.
“We implemented this algorithm six months ago, and our emergency department, in the last six months, we’ve had the lowest observed expected mortality and sepsis that we’ve ever seen at UC San Diego Health,” Longhurst said. And this is just the beginning. Every new application, Longhurst notes, will generate its own set of notices. Asking bedside workers to parse this flow is impossible, meaning that a separate team of professionals will be necessary to decide what needs to be passed along to caregivers and what can wait.
For now, AI’s potential to make routine tasks more manageable for medical professionals seems to be engendering the most excitement.
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