RWJBarnabas Health’s O’Mahony Says Clinician Questions Made AI Deterioration Alerts Better

Stephen O'Mahony, MD, SVP and Chief Medical Information Officer at RWJBarnabas Health, discusses the clinical adoption work behind an AI deterioration warning tied to an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of in-hospital death. He details the concept-to-data mapping done with the technical team, the suppression logic that keeps the system quiet when clinicians already know, and the silent background testing that cut daily alerts to a volume rapid response teams could absorb.