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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 care is CareComm.
engine, entrepreneurial focal point and academic center of Launched in 2019,
excellence driving innovation across Tampa Bay and beyond. CareComm utilizes 20
As Florida’s leading academic health system for more than artificial intelligence (AI)
50 years, and one of the largest hospitals in America, TGH applications to ensure the
combines education, research and clinical care that leverages most efficient use of its
cutting-edge technologies, and deploys innovative approaches staff and resources. The
to provide next-generation therapies and treatment. system helps coordinate
One TGH program that exemplifies the use of innovative the various departments
technology and innovation to measurably improve patient and personnel across the

LET US HELP YOU hospital to reallocate staff, adjust rotations, keep communication
open, and prevent the siloing of patients and their treatment.
Within the first two years of its launch, CareComm

20,000 excess days and generated $40 million in savings by
Ship Your Valuable Packages & Furniture reduced the length of hospital stays by half a day, removed
eliminating redundancies and other inefficiencies. Additionally,
the program has helped TGH operate at maximum occupancy,
has decreased the average length of stays from 6.2 to 5.7 days
• CLOTHING • SCULPTURES • CUSTOM PACKING AND CRATING and has reduced emergency room diversion by 25 percent for
• DISHES • ARTWORK • ESTATES PACKING AND the Level I Trauma Center. These improvements equate to 30
beds of additional capacity. Most of all, it means patients are
• ANTIQUES • COMPUTERS SHIPPING receiving more effective, efficient care.
• FURNISHINGS • FURNITURE SHIPPING • BOXES AND PACKING SUPPLIES Within the past year, TGH further scaled this technology
to develop an early warning and management system for
sepsis, a serious condition in which the body responds
WE PACK AND FREE improperly to infection. The sepsis early warning and
management system saved more than 50 lives within the first
SHIP WITH TLC PICK UP AT YOUR six months of use. “Health systems often suffer from patients
LOCATION having episodes of ill-coordinated care. To mitigate that, we
harness a combination of process, technology and health care
professionals to help navigate patients through their health
care journey, ensuring there is always someone there to help
guide and support them,” said Scott Arnold, executive vice
president, CIO and chief of innovation for TGH.
CareComm is a testament to technology’s increasing influence
in how TGH delivers care. The program’s blend of data sources
and intelligence creates a treatment road map that CareComm
Command Center’s multidisciplinary team can easily understand.
The next step, according to Arnold, is to become predictive in
nature – identifying potential risks and taking the appropriate
actions to prevent further illness before it happens.
Dishes, Glasses, Furniture For more information about how TGH is leading health care
innovation and improving patient care, visit TGH.org.
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