How AI Models Cut Coding Denials by 76% and Recovered 35% of Bed Days in Labor and Delivery

A Labor and Delivery clinical decision-support platform needed prediction models accurate enough for physicians and nurses to act on in real time, not just accurate on paper. We built two patented models trained on 35,000+ cleaned clinical records, deployed on AWS SageMaker and integrated directly into Epic workflows.

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Customer Focus

A Labor and Delivery clinical decision-support platform running inside Epic EHR workflows.

Scope

Two patented prediction models, a real-time command center, automated coding, and operational forecasting.

Stack

Python, AWS SageMaker, REST API, ensemble machine learning.

Status

Live in production, 4.9/5 clinical adoption rating across 150 reviews.

Outcomes

Numbers physicians and finance both act on

The models are trained on 35,000+ cleaned clinical records and hold delivery timing accuracy to within plus or minus 12 minutes, tight enough to change how physicians schedule C-sections and how charge nurses staff the floor.

76%

Reduction in coding denials

35%

Bed days recovered through operational forecasting

99.1%

Accuracy predicting the pushing phase

25%

Reduction in unplanned RN overtime

The Problem

Training reliable models on clinical data means solving several problems at once

Predicting delivery timing accurately, in real time, during active labor, is not one problem. It is several intersecting ones that all had to be solved together.

01
Raw clinical data was noisy and incomplete

60,000+ patient records collected across multiple hospital settings, with missing values, inconsistent formats such as gestational age recorded in weeks in one system and days in another, duplicates, and near-duplicates from data-entry errors. Cleaning, standardizing, and deduplicating brought the set down to 35,000 usable records.

02
Predictive features interact in non-linear ways

Cervical dilation's predictive power depends on labor-progression status, induction changes the whole trajectory, and age interacts with parity. Identifying which features mattered required clinical domain expertise, not just data volume.

03
Overfitting was a constant risk

With 35,000 records and hundreds of potential features, it is easy to build a model that memorizes training-set patterns and fails on new patients. Hyperparameter tuning had to balance regularization against missing real signal, evaluated on R-squared, RMSE, confidence intervals, and feature importance.

04
Predictions had to be instant and precise enough to act on

A patient's condition changes hour by hour, so a model that takes 30 seconds to score is worthless in a clinical setting. A delivery-timing estimate of plus or minus four hours is not useful either; physicians and charge nurses need a window tight enough to plan C-section timing and staffing around.

The Tech Stack

Two models, trained and served on infrastructure built for real-time clinical use.

Python AWS SageMaker REST API Ensemble Machine Learning Bagging & Boosting Hyperparameter Tuning
What We Built

Four systems working off the same real-time data

Two models, engineered for a data problem before they were a prediction problem

The Pre-Admission Model predicts delivery timing from intake data such as BMI, prior deliveries, current weight, and induction status, before active labor begins. The Post-Admission Model takes over once labor starts, incorporating cervical dilation, labor progression, and current vitals to continuously update its prediction. It reaches 99.1% accuracy for the pushing phase, accurate enough for physicians to schedule C-sections around it.

  • Data cleaning and standardization: 60,000+ raw records reduced to 35,000 usable, trustworthy records
  • Feature engineering for non-linear interactions, such as BMI by parity and cervical dilation by labor progression
  • Ensemble methods: bagging and boosting to reduce variance and overfitting
  • Hyperparameter tuning across regularization, tree depth, and learning rate, validated with an 80/20 split and cross-validation

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Global Tech Teams LLC, 525 Washington Blvd, Industrious at Newport Tower, Jersey City, NJ 07310, United States.

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