Akron Children’s Hospital Applies the Rothman Index to Real-Time Clinical Surveillance and Early Pediatric Sepsis Detection

Akron Children’s Hospital is entering a partnership with PeraHealth to
apply predictive analytics technology based on the Rothman Index.
Recognized for leading the way to healthier futures for children through
quality patient care, education, advocacy, community service, and
medical discovery, the hospital will conduct research using PeraHealth’s
Pediatric Rothman Index (pRI) to detect subtle, potentially
life-threatening changes in patient condition.

The Rothman Index (RI) is the first algorithm that automatically derives
one simple score from the vast amount of data in the electronic medical
record to create a picture of any patient’s condition over time – any
age, any disease, any care setting. Because the data feeding the Rothman
Index reflects the real-time status of multiple body systems,
it captures subtle changes in patient condition – often hours or days
earlier than existing vitals-based algorithms.

During 2019, the hospital will identify approaches for a pediatric
sepsis surveillance research project based on the Pediatric RI, or pRI.
PeraHealth will support the hospital’s multidisciplinary research
efforts to better understand and identify mechanisms for sepsis
detection in pediatrics by collaborating with the hospital to compare
Pediatric Early Warning Scores (PEWS) and the pRI for identification of
patients at an elevated risk for deterioration. In addition, PeraHealth
will assist in identifying opportunities for quality improvement around
clinical documentation.

“Through the use of Perahealth’s predictive analytics model, we hope to
be able to more quickly identify a child’s clinical decline and allow
more time for intervention, and improve care for specific conditions
like sepsis,” says Sarah Rush, MD, Director of Neuro-Oncology and Chief
Medical Information Officer. “This is about improving outcomes with
early recognition and action.”

The pRI accommodates age-dependent factors in the computation of the RI
to ensure it correctly reflects pediatric patient condition. The pRI is
an automated, continuously age-adjusted measure of inpatient risk.

“The Rothman Index is overcoming the historic problems with conventional
patient warning systems, which tend to identify problems too late and
generate false alerts for care teams,” says PeraHealth CEO Greg White.
“We look forward to collaborating with Akron Children’s Hospital and
helping the team proactively treat children and prevent complications.”

In 2018, Akron Children’s Hospital achieved Stage 7 status through HIMSS
Analytics, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society. This puts Akron Children’s in the top six
percent of hospitals nationwide to fully attain paperless electronic
medical record (EMR) implementation.

About Akron Children's Hospital

Akron Children’s Hospital is ranked among the best pediatric hospitals
by U.S. News & World Report, but it’s our compassionate approach to
treatment that makes us truly exceptional. To ensure families have
convenient access to care, we have two hospital campuses in northeast
Ohio and 60+ primary, specialty and urgent care locations. We
collaborate with many community partners to bring our neonatal and
pediatric expertise to patients in their healthcare facilities. Through
our Children’s Home Care and School Health programs, our nurses treat
kids where they live and learn. With more than 1 million patient visits
in 2017, we’ve been leading the way to healthier futures for children
through quality patient care, education, advocacy, community service,
and medical discovery since 1890. Learn more at akronchildrens.org.

About PeraHealth

PeraHealth is a software company that uses the Rothman Index to
transform the clinical and financial efficiency of healthcare. The
Rothman Index is the first algorithm that derives one simple score from
the vast amount of data in the electronic medical record to create a
picture of any patient’s condition over time – any age, any disease,
any care setting. It is the only algorithm proven to reduce mortality in
practice. Other results include reducing length of stay and
readmissions. Our customers are leading hospitals and clinicians who
need to identify patients at risk of rapid decline, make decisions about
transfer and discharge, predict the risk of severe infection, and
improve the overall efficiency and quality of care. For more
information, visit PeraHealth.com
and @PeraHealth.

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