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Epic's overhaul of a flawed algorithm holds important lessons for AI

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Epic's overhaul of its sepsis algorithm is a case study in the challenges of ensuring that AI protects patients rather than endangering them.

E pic, the nation’s dominant seller of electronic health records, was bracing for a catastrophe. It was June 2021, and a study about to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association had found that Epic’s artificial intelligence tool to predict sepsis, a deadly complication of infection, was prone to missing cases and flooding clinicians with false alarms. Reporters were clamoring for an explanation. Advertisement Epic executives quickly drafted a statement knocking down the findings and rushed to reassure worried customers. It followed up with a blog post , its first in six m

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