EMRs enlisted in the quest to reduce hospital-acquired infections.
Intermountain Healthcare, a 21-hospital integrated health care delivery system based in Salt Lake City, is expanding its electronic medical record system to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infections with the help of a dollars 2 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D014589:Utah / Q000453:epidemiology