Sepsis claims over 270,000 lives annually and costs $38 billion in healthcare, with delayed recognition worsening outcomes. Carle Health tackled this by forming an interdisciplinary sepsis team focused on timely recognition and treatment for patients with sepsis present on admission. Health Catalyst's Data Platform and Sepsis Analytics Accelerator empowered the effort, delivering clinician-centered analytics that drove a 22.8% relative decrease in sepsis mortality, reduced the observed-to-expected mortality ratio from >1.4 to 1.08, and cut median time to antibiotics by 25 minutes—proving the software's pivotal role in transformative sepsis improvements.

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