NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SAFETY NETWORK (NHSN) - INFORMATICS SOLUTION FOR HOSPITALACQUIRED INFECTIONS

4^th International Conference on Medical Informatics & Telehealth

October 6-7, 2016 | London, UK

Russell Gann

Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs Divsion, Saudi Arabia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Health Med Informat

Abstract :

As Program Manager for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for surveillance applications to include the following: BioSense �syndromic surveillance of the; FluTool �surveillance application used by CDC to report weekly incidence of flu in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR); PHIN Vocabulary Access and Distribution System (VADS) � standardized vocabularies to Public Health partners; PHIN Messaging (MS) � standard secure messages HL-7 transport; National Healthcare, Safety Network (NHSN) � healthcare-associated infection tracking; and International Healthcare Safety Network (IHSN) � healthcare associated infection tracking to the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs. In 2011, as project manager for the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia managed Public Health Informatics; infectious disease surveillance; infection control and implementation of surveillance/informatics requirements for the National Laboratory. While many health care informatics applications are superior in their use of scientific and epidemiological properties, they don�t gather sufficient data on infectious/chronic diseases and HAIs in the local environment. Many in health care advocate top-down approaches to gaining this information But, instead of fixing problems in data validation and costs, focus has changed from data gathering technique improvement to accreditation and training in the hopes of improvement of healthcare related outcomes. Using mobile technology, the approach necessary especially for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) towards this problem is to utilize methods and protocols already in place; automate local processes to roll up locally, regionally and nationally and to expand on these local informatics solutions to eventual input to centralized systems (i.e., Big Data). One such system is the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) implemented for the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This presentation will be both a justification and a demonstration as to how and why this system works.

Biography :

Email: russellgann@live.com