Those of us in the healthcare industry understand how potentially devastating sepsis can be. In fact, it’s the number one cause of death in U.S. hospitals.  But not all of us know that these deaths are preventable 80% of the time — a truth that has been borne out in some amazing clinical successes.

When I was at the Fall CHIME conference in San Antonio, I attended a presentation by a customer of ours (Licking Memorial Health Systems in Ohio) on the topic “Leveraging Actionable Data to Combat Sepsis." With four excellent sessions to choose from, I attended this session because I was interested in the topic and because we offer multiple solutions to help with sepsis management. I always like to hear the customer perspective whenever possible, but I had no idea of what I was really walking into that day.