Infection benchmarking tool

We first reported news about the MedMined system from Cardinal Health in February 2008 (Click here for original post). We can now report that 46 Alabama hospitals are using the tool to benchmark their infection rates with their state peers.

Cardinal Health report “The MedMined benchmarking tool, produced by Cardinal Health, graphs the incidence of health care associated infections (HAIs) in all of the units in a hospital to visually present the current infection rate compared to its peers… Hospitals can compare their incidence of HAIs with other hospitals in the same peer category… The benchmarking capability will be rolled out to hospitals across the country starting in May”. Click here for the full report.

 

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