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Epic sepsis model missed patients and swamped staff

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Jun 2021

Epic's proprietary sepsis predictor pinged 18% of admissions yet still missed two-thirds of real cases, forcing hospitals to comb through false alarms while the vendor scrambled to defend and retune the algorithm.

Incident Details

Perpetrator:Vendor
Severity:Facepalm
Blast Radius:Clinicians drowned in useless alerts, real sepsis patients slipped through, and health systems had to audit Epic’s black-box thresholds and workflows to keep patients safe.