Epic's overhaul of a flawed algorithm shows why AI oversight is a life-or-death issue

Epic, 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. Unlock this article by subscribing to STAT and enjoy your first 30 days free!