UCSF innovators use EHRs to track hospital-acquired infection

(University of California - San Francisco) In a first for hospital infection control, the UC San Francisco Health Informatics team has used electronic health records (EHRs) to track down a source of a common hospital-acquired infection by tracing the movements of more than 85,000 patients over a three-year period.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news