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Impact Signals #89: Eleven hospitals wired an AI deterioration score into their rapid-response teams, and deaths among high-risk patients fell by nearly a fifth Today: Eleven hospitals wired an AI deterioration score into their rapid-response teams, and deaths among high-risk patients fell by nearly a fifth; Bengaluru is sending robots into its Cauvery water mains, and the utility is paying nothing for it; Seven Nigerian civil-society groups just got funded to argue with their own government about AI. --- Top Stories **1. Eleven hospitals wired an AI deterioration score into their rapid-response teams, and deaths among high-risk patients fell by nearly a fifth** Source URL: [rutgers.edu](https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rwjbarnabas-health-and-rutgers-researchers-find-ai-tool-helps-detect-patients-risk-earlier) Researchers from RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School published a study in NEJM AI on July 28 evaluating outcomes for 23,132 high-risk patients across 11 RWJBarnabas Health hospitals. After the system went live, deaths among high-risk patients fell from 23.1 percent to 18.6 percent, an 18 percent reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of dying in hospital. Rapid response team activations for high-risk patients rose from 25.3 percent of hospital stays to 37.5 percent, while transfers to intensive care did not increase significantly. The tool is the Epic Deterioration Index, a proprietary machine-learning model that reads data already sitting in the…