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Worth a Read: Articles of Interest to the Healthcare IT Field At Your Service A look at a ground-breaking achievement from Omaha-based Alegent Health in which consumers can use an online program to find out hospital procedure prices based on their health insurer and plan. A further look at other future-thinking initiatives that are differentiating some healthcare organizations from their local market competitors. Infection Protection The CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (HCSN) deployed in 2005, has combined three previously existing infection control systems created by CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion — the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System, the Dialysis Surveillance Network and the National Surveillance System for Healthcare Workers — into a single, Web-based reporting and analysis platform. The joining of these systems has allowed hospitals to use the same system to track both patients and healthcare workers in a facility. Successes are shared in this article that also talks about mandatory infection control reporting in some states. Improving the Interface of Care with Medication Reconciliation The role of the community pharmacist in hospital Medication Reconciliation and patient safety is an important one. Teamwork between the patient’s pharmacist and the hospital pharmacist is seen as vital in this view from a community pharmacist. |
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