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CMO
How Providence Reduced Sepsis Deaths 3 Years in a Row
CCO Hoda Asmar says the health system improved sepsis care during the first two years by focusing on two processes,...
CMO
How IU Health Cut Healthcare-Associated Infections by 50%
The health system has focused on catheter-associated urinary tract infection, central line-associated bloodstream infection, Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and...
CMO
AdventHealth Hospital Makes Impact by Doubling Infection Prevention Staff
The hospital has not had a central line-associated bloodstream infection or a catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the past eight...
CMO
Banner Health Initiative Reduces Surgical Site Infections
The performance improvement effort was implemented at every one of the health system's hospitals.
Technology
Researchers Use AI to Identify Healthcare-Based Outbreaks
A study launched in 82 HCA Healthcare hospitals found that an AI tool could help staff identify and react to...
Pharma
The Path to a Better Tuberculosis Vaccine Runs Through Montana
The University of Montana Center for Translational Medicine specializes in improving and creating vaccines by adding novel adjuvants.
Four Years After Shelter-in-Place, COVID-19 Misinformation Persists
Even before the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the U.S., fears and uncertainties helped spur misinformation's rapid spread.
CMO
Health Workers Fear It's Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Clinicians worry that the CDC is repeating past mistakes as it develops guidelines that providers will apply to control the...
HLM Communities
Rift Over When to Use N95s Puts Health Workers at Risk Again
The pandemic illustrated how a rift between the CDC and workplace safety officials can have serious repercussions.
CMO
The Exec: Boost Your Risk Management Strategy Now
Alan Harmatz, CMO of Medical City Dallas, says patient safety involves assessing how a care process works, determining whether the...
Pharma
Analysis: A New Era of Vaccines Leaves Old Questions About Prices Unanswered
Using novel vaccines wisely ? directing them to the people who need them at a price they can afford ?...
HLM Communities
Health Workers Warn Loosening Mask Advice in Hospitals Would Harm Patients and Providers
A CDC draft controversially concludes that N95 face masks are equivalent to looser, surgical face masks in certain settings.