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Infection Surveillance

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a growing concern nationwide - affecting 1.7 million patients annually1 and resulting in an estimated 99,000 deaths per year.2

MedMined® services from CareFusion can help you identify adverse drug events and HAIs across your entire hospital and health system, ultimately facilitating your efforts to improve patient safety, prevent infections and reduce costs.

 

See our customer's successes *

St. Rita's Medical Center3

  • 8% decrease in NIM rate

  • 282 patients protected

  • $2,022,935 in direct cost savings

  • 1,324 patient days avoided

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton4

  • 21% decrease in NIM rate

  • 722 patient lives protected
  • $3,000,000 direct cost savings
  • 5,313 days of LOS avoided
  • $2,370,000 in cost avoidance

St. Elizabeth Medical Center5

  • 29% reduction in urine NIM rate

  • 51% reduction in blood NIM rate
  • 42% reduction in respiratory NIM rate
  • $5 million in cost avoidance

* Reflects individual facility data. Your facility may or may not achieve similar outcomes [results].

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Public health focus: surveillance prevention and control of nosocomial infections. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1992:41:783-787.

2. Public Health Reports, March-April 2007; 22: 160-166.

3. CareFusion case study: St. Rita’s Medical Center, 2011.

4. CareFusion case study: Robert Wood Johnson, 2011.

5. CareFusion case study: St Elizabeth’s Medical Center, 2011.



"Nothing I've encountered in my 25 years of experience has had an impact on infection prevention efforts as much as MedMined services. I would not want to work in a facility without this tool."
— Marcia Patrick, RN, MSN, CIC, MultiCare Health System, Tacoma, WA

"MedMined data has allowed our team to qualify HAI reduction, the lives protected and demonstrate the value of infection prevention in our organization."
— Scott Robins, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Covenant Health System

"Utilizing the proven financial outcomes provided by MedMined services, we've made a significant improvement in HAI awareness and reduction across all levels of our hospital."
— Kevin J. Burns, Chief Executive Officer & President, University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ

"MedMined services identify our infection issues, equipping us with valuable information to make a real difference in patient care."
— LeAnna Grace, Director of Infection Prevention, Rome Memorial Hospital, Rome, NY

"Patient Event Advisor alerts us right away when the patient has a culture with an organism that is resistant to the drug they are on. We can also identify patients with possible infections that potentially need anti-infective therapy that hasn't been ordered yet and facilitate getting patients treated more quickly."
— Jennifer Woodward, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Bromen Healthcare