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
The aims of this study are to demonstrate the use of Twitter as a real-time method of Ebola outbreak surveillance...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16
Although automated surveillance technology has been evolving for decades, adoption of these technologies is in a nascent state. The current...
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
Health information technology (IT) includes a wide variety of technologies, services, and products, including electronic health records (EHRs), e-surveillance technology,...
HAIs: Types and Pathogens | 9.30.16
Although the past few decades have seen progress in healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention, these infections still affect about one out...
Health Information Technology | 9.30.16
Evaluating research studies and incorporating the results of research findings into the practice of infection prevention and control are core...
HAIs: Types and Pathogens | 11.11.16
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a spore-forming bacterium capable of causing gastrointestinal conditions ranging from diarrhea to colitis. Twenty years...