3 Trends in Electronic HAI Surveillance

As electronic health records have proliferated, hospitals and health systems are increasingly using the information in electronic healthcare-associated infection surveillance systems.

Three trends have emerged surrounding the formation of these systems and their use of available data, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

  1. Surveillance systems are pulling data from an increasing number of sources, including more administrative, clinical and laboratory-based data.
  2. Macrobiotic data remains the most important in tracking HAIs, but care facilities are beginning to use more biochemical and pharmacy data as well.
  3. There has been limited use of some clinical information, such as physician narratives.

The trends were found following a literature review from 26 published studies on HAI surveillance systems over the past 10 years.

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