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Computer Informatics for Infection Control
Michael Y Lin1, William E Trick2
1Department of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, 600 S. Paulina St., Suite 143, Chicago, IL, USA.
Abstract:
Computer informatics have the potential to improve infection control outcomes in surveillance, prevention, and public health. Surveillance activities include surveillance of infections, device use, and facility/ward outbreak detection and investigation. Prevention activities include awareness of multidrug-resistant organism carriage on admission, identification of high-risk individuals or populations, reducing device use, and antimicrobial stewardship. Enhanced communication with public health and other health care facilities across networks includes automated electronic communicable disease reporting, syndromic surveillance, and regional outbreak detection. Computerized public health networks may represent the next major evolution in infection control. This article reviews the use of informatics for infection control.
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