2007 ARTICLES

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TheraDoc targets infection detection, control

Healthcare IT News – 5.1.07

GREAT NECK, NY - Nothing can cause more havoc in a hospital than an infection. If left unchecked, it can sicken or kill dozens, perhaps even hundreds.

The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is taking steps to combat the threat of infection - either accidental or intentional - by strengthening its emergency preparedness programs. Armed with a Department of Defense grant, the 15-hospital health system has selected TheraDoc, a Salt Lake City-based clinical informatics company that develops and implements electronic surveillance systems that can detect and help prevent infections.

"Hospital-acquired infection surveillance is such a hot topic," says Stan Pestotnik, TheraDoc's president and CEO. "It's really beyond any kind of a manual process." Full Article

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UPHS Focuses on Infections

In an effort to prevent infection and detect real-time injury, UPHS taps a different sort of doctor, TheraDoc.
Healthcare Informatics – 4.1.07

Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) has selected several infection surveillance and real-time injury detection and prevention systems provided by Salt Lake City, Utah-based TheraDoc Inc.

"With the state of Pennsylvania mandating that all infections be reported, we were faced with the challenge of gathering information from multiple databases, which was extremely time consuming. Infection control practitioners were spending all their time on the computer, instead of at the patient's bedside. The work shifted from prevention to data gathering," says Neil Fishman, M.D., associate professor of medicine, division of infectious diseases, University of Pennsylvania. Full Article

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CDC and TheraDoc Collaborate on Electronic Surveillance of Antimicrobial Use and Resistance

Technology Enables Efficient Data Transmission and Evaluation
Managing Infection Control – 3.1.07

During the past 30 years the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has monitored two major patient safety issues - hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and antibiotic resistance - through its National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system. The agency furthered its ability to collect data critical to achieving its patient safety efforts with the launch of the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) in 2005. NHSN is a surveillance and knowledge system for accumulating, exchanging and integrating relevant information to support local and national efforts to protect patients and promote healthcare safety.

In 2003, CDC launched an electronic surveillance research project to monitor antibiotic use and resistance in U.S. hospitals. Called the AUR eSurveillance project, the initiative is part of the research and development component of NHSN. Full Article

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