Speaker Name(s): Charles Safran, MD
Description: Hospital acquired infections continue to present a major challenge to hospitals. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) includes hand washing, an activity that greatly reduces infection rates, as a significant part of its current 100K Lives Campaign. Video auditing has been used in the food industry to improve compliance with hygienic guidelines, and has been met with great results. In an effort to reduce infections associated with central line insertion, A Boston hospital is testing a new service called Hospital Video Auditing to see if the results in the food industry can be achieved in healthcare. In this session attendees will hear from an internationally known physician informaticist who is working to evaluate this new surveillance technology in critical care units. Preliminary results from the pilot project ongoing in Boston will be presented.