AHRQ: Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections
AHRQ
Initiating Promising Solutions and Expanding Proven Ones
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are on everyone’s hit list, as they should be, because no patient should get sicker from a preventable infection they pick up in a hospital or other healthcare facility.
BioVigil Releases Second-Generation Hand Hygiene Monitoring System
BioVigil LLC has released the second generation of the BioVigil hand
hygiene monitoring system. The innovative system enables hospitals to
more effectively combat Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) by
dramatically increasing hand hygiene compliance among healthcare
workers.
Housekeepers, Transporters May ‘Inadvertently’ Spread Hospital Infection
One cause of the rampant international hospital-infection epidemic may
be the “inadvertent exposure” of hospital housekeepers and transporters
to antibiotic-resistant “Superbugs” such as MRSA, saysTeleTracking
Technologies CEO Anthony Sanzo.
Patient Safety Authority Analysis Reveals High Number of Dosing Errors with Insulin Products
Analysis of data related to insulin medication errors and a local
hospital’s success in reducing hospital readmission costs are
highlighted in quarterly journal.
AsepticSure™ Hospital Sterilization System Demonstrates Total Eradication of Super Bugs
Medizone International, Inc. announced that
every full scale test run completed thus far in its hospital room mock
up facility has resulted in the total elimination of all bacteria
present in the room.