Sepsis Watch Cost and benefits analysis

 Benefits of the Sepsis Watch 

In 2017, 48.9 million people where diagnosed with sepsis globally and approximately 11 million people die from it. This is a major issue facing the medical industry. The Sepsis watch has the ability to reduce this death rate. The faster Sepsis is diagnosed and treated the more likely it is that the patient will recover. The key benefit to the sepsis watch is the speed at which its able to detect the the illness when compared to a doctors diagnosis. 

Costs of the sepsis watch 

The exact costs to create the AI are not released however it did take three and a half years to develop the technology so its pretty safe to assume the early stages of this technology were costly. The technology has the potential for some additional costs such as; someone to manage the technology, training programs, and programmers to maintain software code. These are cost;y expenses so it will be important to make sure the technology is marginally beneficial in terms of the cost to the Sepsis Watch when compared to that of having a doctor spending their time diagnosing the patient.