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Changing The Landscape: How TGH Is Leading Health

Care Innovation And Improving Patient Care

Tampa General Hospital (TGH) serves as an economic of process, technology
engine, entrepreneurial focal point and academic center of and health care
excellence driving innovation across Tampa Bay and beyond. professionals to help
As Florida’s leading academic health system for more than 50 navigate patients
years, and one of the largest hospitals in America, TGH combines through their health
education, research and clinical care that leverages cutting-edge care journey, ensuring
technologies, and deploys innovative approaches to provide there is alw ays
next-generation therapies and treatment. someone there to help
One TGH program that exemplifies the use of innovative guide and support
technology and innovation to measurably improve patient care is them,” said Scott
CareComm. Launched in 2019, CareComm utilizes 20 artificial Arnold, executive vice
intelligence (AI) applications to ensure the most efficient use of emergency room diversion by 25 percent for the Level I Trauma president, CIO and chief of innovation for TGH.
its staff and resources. The system helps coordinate the various Center. These improvements equate to 30 beds of additional CareComm is a testament to technology’s increasing
departments and personnel across the hospital to reallocate staff, capacity. Most of all, it means patients are receiving more influence in how TGH delivers care. The program’s blend
adjust rotations, keep communication open, and prevent the effective, efficient care. of data sources and intelligence creates a treatment road map
siloing of patients and their treatment. Within the past year, TGH further scaled this technology to that CareComm Command Center’s multidisciplinary team
Within the first two years of its launch, CareComm reduced develop an early warning and management system for sepsis, can easily understand. The next step, according to Arnold, is
the length of hospital stays by half a day, removed 20,000 a serious condition in which the body responds improperly to to become predictive in nature – identifying potential risks
excess days and generated $40 million in savings by eliminating infection. The sepsis early warning and management system and taking the appropriate actions to prevent further illness
redundancies and other inefficiencies. Additionally, the program saved more than 50 lives within the first six months of use. before it happens.
has helped TGH operate at maximum occupancy, has decreased “Health systems often suffer from patients having episodes of ill- For more information about how TGH is leading health
the average length of stays from 6.2 to 5.7 days and has reduced coordinated care. To mitigate that, we harness a combination care innovation and improving patient care, visit TGH.org.

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