"Memorial Healthcare's innovative use of the TheraDoc clinical surveillance platform spans many areas of patient care -- from documenting infection prevention and pharmacy activities and meeting pediatric asthma core quality measures, to tracking H1N1 influenza cases," said Stanley Pestotnik, M.S., R.Ph., general manager, TheraDoc. "Its success with these initiatives illustrates the versatility of the TheraDoc platform to help clinicians quickly address quality and patient safety challenges that hospitals face every day."  

Other abstracts related to TheraDoc being presented at the 2010 APIC meeting include:

Can Automated Surveillance Software Assist with Cohorting Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms? Poster #12-128, Hahnamann University Hospital. Does an Automated Infection Surveillance System Benefit a Hospital with Limited Information System Resources? Poster #12-131, Hahnamann University Hospital.

With the patented TheraDoc Expert System Platform?„? as the engine, the Infection Control Assistant complements several hospital surveillance modules powered by TheraDoc, including the ADE Assistant?„?, Clinical Alerts Assistant?„?, Antibiotic Assistant?„? and the company's newest TheraDoc module, the Anticoagulation Assistant?„?. With 1.7 million HAIs occurring annually, clinicians at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions used Infection Control Assistant to help reduce HAI-confirmation time by 50 percent while achieving 98 percent accuracy of infection identification.

SOURCE Hospira, Inc.