HCA Healthcare Awarded 2019 Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award
May 13 2020 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
National Quality Forum, The Joint Commission
recognize HCA Healthcare for its algorithm-driven sepsis early
warning technology
HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today announced that it has been recognized
by The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum (NQF) with
the prestigious John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award
for its pioneering work using artificial intelligence to help
reduce sepsis mortality.
Sepsis Prediction and Optimization of Therapy, known as SPOT,
received the award for Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality at
the national level. SPOT goes by the popular dog name because it
sniffs out sepsis in a way humans cannot. Its algorithm
continuously monitors vital signs, lab results, nursing reports and
other data to detect often subtle changes in a patient’s condition
and alerts clinicians to signs of sepsis in patients, as much as
six hours earlier than previously, so they can take appropriate
action.
“The current public health climate of COVID-19 has emphasized
now more than ever the importance of early detection of
life-threatening illnesses,” said Dr. Jonathan Perlin, HCA
Healthcare’s chief medical officer and president, clinical services
group. “We are honored to receive this respected award for our
technology that helps clinicians detect sepsis earlier, accelerates
treatment, improves the care provided to patients, and helps save
lives.”
Sepsis is an overwhelming infection that can lead to total body
failure, taking the lives of approximately 270,000 Americans each
year. A case study on SPOT was featured in the May-June issue of
NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery.
HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses the
significant data it collects from approximately 35 million annual
patient care episodes to inform and improve the care it provides to
patients. HCA Healthcare’s national clinical data warehouse, which
receives information from the electronic health record, is the
heart of HCA Healthcare’s data ecosystem, providing the ability to
aggregate and analyze data streams in real time and feed tools like
SPOT that, in turn, provide actionable information to
caregivers.
The Eisenberg Awards bring together the quality community to
recognize groundbreaking initiatives in health care that are
consistent with the aims of the National Quality Strategy: better
care, healthy people and communities, and smarter spending.
The awards recognize major individual, local and national
achievements in health care that improve patient safety and health
care quality.
“This year’s Eisenberg Award recipients have demonstrated both a
positive impact on the patients they serve as well as fulfilling
the quality community’s mission to ensure that care is measured and
can be improved,” said Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil, president and
chief executive officer, National Quality Forum.
The patient safety awards program, launched in 2002, honors the
late John M. Eisenberg, MD, MBA, former administrator of the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). An impassioned advocate
for health care quality improvement, Eisenberg was a member of
NQF’s founding board of directors, chaired the federal government’s
Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force and personally led
AHRQ’s grant program to support patient safety research.
About HCA Healthcare Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is
one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services,
comprising 186 hospitals and approximately 2,000 sites of care,
including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers,
and physician clinics, in 21 states and the United Kingdom. With
its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for
hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to
strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the
practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of
clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term
delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and
another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce
bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44 percent. HCA
Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its more than 35
million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve
patient care and save lives. Please click here to connect with HCA
Healthcare on social media.
All references to “Company,” “HCA” and “HCA
Healthcare” as used throughout this document refer to HCA
Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
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