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Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

APIC Advocacy on Health Information Technology

Health information technology (IT) includes a wide variety of technologies, services, and products, including electronic health records (EHRs), e-surveillance technology,...

Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

Glossary of Terms for Information Technology and Pearls of Wisdom for Implementation and Use

This glossary of terms is a primer on the vocabulary information technology professionals use and with which infection preventionists should...

Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

Clinical Decision Support Systems and Infection Prevention: To Know Is Not Enough

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

Slow Adoption of Automated Infection Prevention Surveillance: Are Human Factors Contributing?

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

What Can We Learn About the Ebola Outbreak From Tweets?

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

Review and Analysis of Existing Mobile Phone Applications for Health Care – Associated Infection Prevention

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

Automated Tracking and Ordering of Precautions for Multidrug-Resistant Organisms

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

Studies on Nurse Staffing and Health Care – Associated Infection: Methodologic Challenges and Potential Solutions

National efforts to promote an HER may offer solutions for future studies by providing more comprehensive data on HAIs and...

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