Clinical surveillance to avoid harm
SafetySurveillor®
With increased demands from regulatory, government and watchdog agencies to decrease HAI occurrences and their associated costs, infection prevention professionals must be more vigilant than ever in their infection surveillance and prevention efforts.
In hospitals alone, healthcare associated infections (HAIs) account for an estimated 2 million infections, 90,000 deaths and $4.5 billion in excess healthcare costs annually.* The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will refuse additional payment after October 1, 2008, for any case in which one of the CMS-designated conditions is viewed as having been acquired during the patient’s hospital stay rather than before admission. States with a public disclosure requirement are passing legislation requiring hospitals to publish data to show the public which hospitals are "safer" in terms of HAIs.
Improve infection prevention efforts and reduce costs associated with HAIs with Premier's SafetySurveillor. SafetySurveillor is the comprehensive Web-based solution infection prevention professionals rely on for automated infection control, surveillance and medication management.
SafetySurveillor– Infection control
Manage and eliminate infections with actionable alerts, analysis and reports through automatic data collection and analytical routines that integrate patient, laboratory and pharmacy data.
SafetySurveillor - Pharmacy
Increase pharmacists' efficiency, optimize antimicrobial utilization, enhance outcomes and reduce pharmacy expenditures.
* Center for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/healthDis.html; December 2006.
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