Have you ever seen a medical TV show where a group of doctors will rush over to a “coding” patient whose heart has stopped while dramatic music plays?
This race against the clock happens quite often in real life. And many times, the resuscitation attempt isn’t enough.
So one hospital group, Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, has been working with Epic, the company that makes its medical record software, and Microsoft’s cloud service Azure, to figure out whether technology can pinpoint which patients are likely to code, well before a cardiac or respiratory arrest.