FDA approves EMR-embedded sepsis prediction tool

It's said to be better than Epic's ... but that's not saying much

The FDA approved the first-ever AI-powered electronic medical record-based prediction model for sepsis: The Sepsis Immunoscore, by Prenosis.

If you look under the hood, it suffers from the same fundamental limitation as all the rest: the lack of a reference standard (gold standard) for diagnosing sepsis. Like other tools, it relies by necessity on indir…