NorthBay Health Decreases Mortality Rate and Unplanned Transfers to the ICU with the Rothman Index
NorthBay Health, a nonprofit system in Solano County, California, partnered with PeraHealth in 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
- NorthBay Health, a nonprofit system in Solano County, California, partnered with PeraHealth in 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The system replaced the Modified Early Warning System (MEWS) with PeraHealth’s solutions to improve clinical surveillance, yielding a 16 percent decrease in mortality rate and 30 percent decrease in unplanned transfers to the ICU, resulting in financial ROI from prevented, avoidable ICU days.
- PeraHealth’s Rothman Index (RI) algorithm automatically derives one simple score from existing electronic medical record data to create a picture of any patient’s condition over time.
- NorthBay integrated the RI with Cerner and built the solution into its clinical workflow, from shift handoff to daily safety briefings.