AI-powered surveillance systems are helping health systems and public health agencies with their response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The current health crisis offers a glimpse of how it may be possible to predict and prevent a range of chronic health concerns, including healthcare-associated infections.
The Sanford, Florida-based company offers a disposable scrubs vending machine called the ScrubsPort, along with a software system to track who's active in a hospital's OR.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Last week, Medicare lowered a year's worth of payments to 751 hospitals to penalize them for having the highest rates of patient injuries.
A new study proposes that understanding how microbes interact with patients, staff, and hospital surfaces within the microbiome of a hospital environment can contribute to a complete knowledge of healthcare associated infections and antibiotic resistance, and how to prevent both.
What pathogen is causing a patient's disease? A coalition of University of California researchers, doctors and Silicon Valley companies are working together to create a test that can diagnose whether a severely ill patient has a virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite.
Hospitals still largely rely on manual methods to track hand hygiene despite the prevalence of available electronic technologies to monitor cleanliness, a new DebMed survey found, but a growing number of facilities have plans to implement monitoring technologies. There is a “positive trend in not only the adoption of better technologies, but also the more imminent […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Hospitals are keenly aware that they risk attracting reimbursement penalties for every patient that contracts an infection while they’re hospitalized. A Premier analysis identified complications that could increase costs, lengths of stay and mortality. Although several of the conditions it identifies probably couldn’t be prevented by hospitals. But some hospitals have initiated programs to identify […]
The problem of hospital acquired infections is a new concept to most people. No one thinks about the potentially scary germs on hospital curtains and other surfaces when she is in a hospital bed trying to get well. The idea that the tools surgeons use to cut into patients are equally dirty is even more […]
Hospitals struggle to get doctors and nurses to wash their hands. That’s a serious problem, since hand washing is one of the keys to reducing healthcare acquired infections that afflict more than a million patients a year and kill over 100,000. And it’s one of the reasons you should try your best to stay out […]
Scientists in Singapore think there might be a way to fight microorganisms that cause infection with, well, other microorganisms that cause infection. Synthetic biologist Matthew Chang and his colleagues at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore bioengineered E. coli bacteria in a way that causes them to hunt down and kill the gram negative bacterium Pseudomonas […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Among patients with community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, more than a third had not used antibiotics in the 12 weeks prior to diagnosis and more than half reported limited or no health care contact over the same period. To assess possible sources of infection, Dr. Amit S. Chitnis and his colleagues at the U.S. Centers for […]