Electronic Surveillance for HAIs: From Ideation to Implementation
This Pulse describes how the rapid advances in technology, the electronic health record and electronic data collection, data mining and other automated software systems now provide sophisticated and innovative products aimed at reducing the surveillance burden for infection preventionists. Strategies for successful implementation of electronic surveillance systems are provided.
This Pulse describes how the rapid advances in technology, the electronic health record and electronic data collection, data mining and other automated software systems now provide sophisticated and innovative products aimed at reducing the surveillance burden for infection preventionists. Strategies for successful implementation of electronic surveillance systems are provided.
- Review various public reporting mandates
- Discover the economic and organizational factors that impact electronic surveillance systems
- Learn how to make the business case for automated systems
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