Reducing Epidemic Proportions: High-tech System Cuts Hospital-related Infections By Half

Thursday, November 6, 2008 - 09:14 in Health & Medicine

Hospitals are supposed to be havens for healing, but the numbers tell a different story. Too many people are infected by illnesses they acquire after they’ve been admitted, and hospital-related infections continue to be the number-two killer of hospitalized Americans after heart disease. Now, a radical new high-tech software program developed to fight these infections is now catching on faster than the flu.

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