Case Study: Piedmont Healthcare achieves systemwide sepsis improvement and trusted near‑real‑time data with Health Catalyst's Sepsis Improvement Application

Designing Hospital Quality Function Around the Value Chain

Piedmont Healthcare, a six-hospital integrated delivery system in greater Atlanta and North Georgia, struggled to sustain sepsis care improvements because clinicians distrusted retrospective, manually compiled data and the system lacked a coordinated, systemwide improvement team. To address delays in recognition and treatment of sepsis and low bundle compliance, Piedmont engaged Health Catalyst and implemented the Health Catalyst Analytics Platform and the Sepsis Improvement Application (with installation services) to provide timely, trusted performance data.

Health Catalyst delivered an analytics-driven solution, validated with clinicians, that created near‑real‑time dashboards and unit-level feedback to drive accountability. Within three months Piedmont gained systemwide visibility, improved first-alert acknowledgement by 19%, cut manual data collection by 97% (eliminating hundreds of chart reviews and replacing audits with under five minutes of interactive queries), reduced cancelled alert rates by 42% in one unit, refocused an estimated one FTE into improvement work, and reported early indications of better patient outcomes.

Piedmont Healthcare

Leigh Hamby

MD, MHA Chief Medical Officer