Health Information Technology | 9.13.17
This white paper addresses key points in NHSN’s C. difficile LabID reporting module, with a specific focus on the correlation...
HAIs: Types and Pathogens | 8.30.17
Testing only appropriate patient specimens for C. difficile can have a drastic impact on a facility’s C. difficile rates, but it...
Health Information Technology | 5.17.17
Infection prevention (IP) programs that depend primarily on paper-based, manual, and retrospective surveillance processes and on reports for aggregation with...
Health Information Technology | 5.15.17
Infection prevention (IP) programs that depend primarily on paper-based, manual, and retrospective surveillance processes and on reports for aggregation with...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16
The transmission and infection risk associated with multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) carriers necessitates surveillance and tracking to provide proper contact precautions....
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16
The expanding number of mobile health applications (apps) holds potential to reduce and eliminate health care-associated infections (HAIs) in clinical...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16
Clinical decision support (CDS) systems are an increasingly used form of technology designed to guide health care providers toward established...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16
This glossary of terms is a primer on the vocabulary information technology professionals use and with which infection preventionists should...