T here are no pretty pictures of mountains or flowers on the screen savers of the monitors at the nurse stations at Sentara Healthcare hospitals. Instead, the screens show a color-coded status—red, green, or yellow—of the patients in each of the hospital’s private rooms. The colors are generated by a predictive analytics application in Sentara’s IT system that constantly interrogates the patient’s database, including lab results, oxygen levels, vital signs and more. By themselves, each reading may not indicate a problem. But when correlated together the system can predict that the patient’s condition is likely deteriorating. When the nurses see red, they know to check on the patient ASAP and avoid a potentially deadly outcome. The color-coded screen saver for patient alerts is j

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