Ambient Clinical Analytics: Real-Time Clinical Decision Support System

With growing complexity in medical care, healthcare-associated infections have become more common. Patients with prolonged stays in acute care units often risk the chance of developing critical infections like sepsis. What makes it more dangerous is the challenge involved in identifying these infections at an early stage, as patients with sepsis may experience symptoms like nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain—symptoms that are usually linked to common illnesses. Further, with no confirmatory tests in place for cases like sepsis, clinical judgment highly depends on a doctor’s experience. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 250,000 patients die from septic shocks each year in the U.S. While the knowledge of patient demographics and symptoms leading to sepsis are widespread, clinicians are still in search of comprehensive early detection and treatment strategies for sepsis. This is where Ambient Clinical Analytics makes an impact with its revolutionary real-time clinical decision support system, AWARE. The FDA Class II cleared platform offers a specialized tool, AWARE Sepsis DART, which not only identifies potential sepsis conditions at early stages, but also guides clinicians through the process of care.

Allen Berning, CEO of Ambient Clinical Analytics, explains that the inability of existing medical devices to detect sepsis early on has made it a life-threatening medical condition. “This is the gap we bridge,” he says. AWARE Sepsis DART uses hospital-defined sepsis detection rules to indicate if sepsis may be present or developing within a patient’s body, and then programmatically coordinates with specified caregivers to assist them in monitoring the treatment during the first critical 3 to 6 hours of care.

In addition to sepsis, Ambient Clinical Analytics’ flagship AWARE platform offers real-time access to vital process-of-care information and analytics for other critical medical conditions as well. Utilizing licensed Mayo Clinic technologies, Ambient Clinical Analytics delivers state-of-the-art real-time bedside healthcare data assimilation, communication, and analytics-based clinical decision support tools that help care providers reduce overall healthcare costs and simultaneously improve patient outcomes.