Artificial intelligence (AI) helped UC San Diego Health reduce its sepsis mortality rate by 17%, according to a study the health system published in January.

Sepsis is a leading cause of death in US hospitals—at least 1.7 million people develop the condition annually and of that group, about 350,000 patients die in the hospital or are discharged to hospice, CDC data shows. Sepsis also costs the US healthcare system roughly $62 billion annually, according to an article published in journal Critical Care Medicine.

Clinicians at UC San Diego Health developed an AI model called Composer that can detect sepsis in patients roughly four to six hours before a clinician would be able to diagnose it, Gabriel Wardi, the medical director of hospital sepsis at the health system, told Healthcare Brew.

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If you’re under the age of 40 and on social media, you’ve probably wanted to start your own Etsy shop at least once. Perhaps you’re interested in selling crocheted bees for $10 a pop.

If you’ve thought about the logistics of how many crocheted bees you needed to make in order to keep up with demand, good news! You already get it. Substitute “Etsy shop” with “hospital outpatient clinics” and “crocheted bees” with “drugs of the medical kind,” and you’ll have a pretty good grasp of buy-and-bill.

In other words, when a health provider frequently administers specialty drugs, the clinician may buy the drug in bulk from a distributor to have on-site and then bill a patient’s health insurance for the cost of the drug along with a fee for drug administration, according to the pharmaceutical industry accreditation body the Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs (ACMA).

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IT pros: If someone from finance calls and says their phone is busted and they need to start over with authentication, trust but verify. Actually, don’t trust; just verify.

Healthcare help desks need to be especially careful of impersonators pretending to be locked out of accounts, according to an April 3 sector alert from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, or HC3. The advanced social-engineering tactics bypass multifactor authentication mechanisms.

“The threat actor…successfully convinced the IT help desk to enroll a new device in multifactor authentication (MFA) to gain access to corporate resources,” the report read, describing one instance.

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