THE F.A.R INSTITUTE

Following "successful" open-heart surgery, Florence A. Rothman died of unrecognized post-operative complications. Her sons, Steven and Michael Rothman, identified this tragic outcome as a problem of the healthcare delivery system. Since that time, they have worked to prevent similar mistakes from happening to others. The Rothmans envisioned a means of detecting medical decline earlier, allowing for greater opportunity to initiate treatment and save patients who might otherwise descend into profound sickness, suffering and death. With the cooperation of Sarasota Memorial Hospital and the support of the Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation and the Greenfield Foundation, they utilized innovative techniques to analyze data from the electronic medical record (EMR), ultimately developing a universal health acuity score, the Florence A. Rothman Patient Monitoring Index (RI), that tracks each patient's condition in real time. This outside-the-box thinking led to new techniques in Data..

Also known as: FAR Institute

Primary location: Sarasota United States