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Changing The Landscape: How TGH Is Leading Health

Care Innovation And Improving Patient Care

Tampa General Hospital (TGH) serves as an economic removed 20,000 excess
engine, entrepreneurial focal point and academic center days and generated $40
of excellence driving innovation across Tampa Bay and million in savings by
beyond. As Florida’s leading academic health system eliminating redundancies
for more than 50 years, and one of the largest hospitals and other inefficiencies.
in America, TGH combines education, research and Additionally, the program
clinical care that leverages cutting-edge technologies, has helped TGH operate
and deploys innovative approaches to provide next- at maximum occupancy,
generation therapies and treatment. ha s de cre ased t he
One TGH program that exemplifies the use of average length of stays
innovative technology and innovation to measurably from 6.2 to 5.7 days and
improve patient care is CareComm. Launched in has reduced emergency
2019, CareComm utilizes 20 artificial intelligence room diversion by 25
(AI) applications to ensure the most efficient use of its percent for the Level I
staff and resources. The system helps coordinate the Trauma Center. These
various departments and personnel across the hospital improvements equate
to reallocate staff, adjust rotations, keep communication to 30 beds of additional
open, and prevent the siloing of patients and their capacity. Most of all,
treatment. it means patients are
Within the first two years of its launch, CareComm receiving more effective,
reduced the length of hospital stays by half a day, efficient care.
Within the past year, TGH further scaled chief of innovation for TGH.
this technology to develop an early warning CareComm is a testament to technology’s increasing
and management system for sepsis, a serious influence in how TGH delivers care. The program’s
condition in which the body responds blend of data sources and intelligence creates a
improperly to infection. The sepsis early treatment road map that CareComm Command Center’s
warning and management system saved multidisciplinary team can easily understand. The next
more than 50 lives within the first six step, according to Arnold, is to become predictive
months of use. “Health systems often in nature – identifying potential risks and taking the
suffer from patients having episodes of appropriate actions to prevent further illness before it
ill-coordinated care. To mitigate that, we happens.
harness a combination of process, technology For more information about how TGH is leading
and health care professionals to help navigate health care innovation and improving patient care, visit
patients through their health care journey, TGH.org.
ensuring there is always someone there to
help guide and support them,” said Scott
Arnold, executive vice president, CIO and

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