AI Can Help Patients—but Only If Doctors Understand It – Trading U

Nurse Dina Sarro didnt know much about artificial intelligence when Duke University Hospital installed machine learning software to raise an alarm when a person was at risk of developing sepsis, a complication of infection that is the number one killer in US hospitals. The software, called Sepsis Watch, passed alerts from an algorithm Duke researchers had tuned with 32 million data points from past patients to the hospitals team of rapid response nurses, co-led by Sarro.
But when nurses relayed…

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