Kaiser Permanente has demonstrated how AI tools can improve the quality and efficiency of hospital patient care and even save lives.
Yes. Kaiser Permanente has demonstrated how AI help can improve the quality and efficiency of patient care and even save lives., Kaiser Permanente — the largest nonprofit integrated health-care delivery system in the country — has been developing an AI tool that detects signs of clinical deterioration in hospital patients to identify those at risk of getting much sicker. This is a fundamental skill that doctors hone throughout their medical training.
Kaiser Permanente’s AI tool addresses several of these obstacles. Predictive algorithms have been built to account for a patient’s preexisting medical conditions, vital signs, laboratory tests, bedside nurse reports and other factors. And the tool receives hourly input from electronic medical records. If all this data reveals a significant risk of decline, an alert is issued.The key difference in Kaiser’s use of AI is what happens next.
From 2016 to 2019, this AI-powered alert system was rolled out to all 21 of Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California hospitals. Researchers then examined the outcomes of patients it flagged vs. those who would have triggered an alert if the system had been active at the time of their hospitalization. Their results, published in the, show there was a 16 percent lower mortality rate among patients who benefited from the AI tool. That’s equivalent to 520 deaths prevented per year.
Kaiser Permanente’s results are not unique. A series of studies published last year in Nature Medicine analyzed patient outcomes at five hospitals, including Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, after an AI tool was deployed to identify patients who might have sepsis. This whole-body infection is a leading cause of in-hospital death, but it can be treated with antibiotics if it’s caught early enough.
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