An eight-year initiative aimed at improving healthcare quality and lowering costs has entered its final phase, and its director says the project's lessons could serve as best practices for healthcare providers across the nation. FULL STORY »
Efforts to curb the spread of Clostridium difficile are increasing, yet are not having much of an effect on the infection rate for the intestinal superbug, according to a national survey of infection preventionists. FULL STORY »
In the struggle to help patients overcome the life-threatening gut infection Clostridium difficile, doctors are looking increasingly to a treatment that has almost instant results in some of the sickest of patients. FULL STORY »
Even as epidemiologists worry about a shrinking arsenal of antibiotics to fight potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital are betting on another weapon to prevent infections: robots. FULL STORY »
Join healthcare leaders in an interactive discussion about the fight to prevent hospital - acquired infections. Ask real-time questions about how you can apply “Lessons Learned” from Cone Health and Sodexo to dramatically reduce infection rates for your organization. FULL STORY »
The rate of flu vaccinations among hospital workers in November increased to 83.4% from 77.8% a year earlier, although figures were static for the overall healthcare workforce and the general public. FULL STORY »
The Kansas Health Information Network is claiming the title as the first state health information exchange to connect directly with BioSense, the national syndromic surveillance reporting and communications network. FULL STORY »
Join healthcare leaders in an interactive discussion about the fight to prevent hospital - acquired infections. Ask real-time questions about how you can apply “Lessons Learned” from Cone Health and Sodexo to dramatically reduce infection rates for your organization. FULL STORY »
More elderly and at-risk adults get their flu and pneumonia vaccinations when the shots are coordinated and given by nurses instead of doctors, according to a North American study. FULL STORY »
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