Hospitals look to computers to predict patient emergencies before they happen

(By Casey Ross for STAT)

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Seven floors, and long odds, were stacked against John S. He was undergoing a test on the first floor of a Cleveland Clinic hospital when his nursing team — on the eighth floor — got a call, telling them the 57-year-old had developed a dangerously rapid heartbeat that was spiraling toward cardiac arrest.  Continue reading article here…

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