using electronic monitoring for infections

HERSHEY, Pa. - At Hershey Medical Center, a sophisticated computer program serves as a watchdog for infection outbreaks.

With a few mouse clicks on a Web browser, the hospital's infection-control staffers can quickly generate reports with charts and graphs illustrating how many patients within a particular unit are infected, and which lab specimen contained the germs.


"It's more for us to look at the hospital as a whole and look for trends," said Dr. Kathleen Julian, an infection disease physician. "Is there a cluster of problems in this unit?"

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