3M Infection Prevention and RL Solutions Provide Real-Time Infection Rate and Cost Data Associated With Healthcare-Acquired Infections

3M Infection Prevention and RL Solutions announced a joint feasibility program to provide healthcare facilities data on the rate of hospital acquired infections in real-time and the costs associated with those infections. This collaborative effort brings together RL Solutions' leading infection surveillance system, RL6:Infection, with the 3M(TM) HAI Cost Analysis Report, which gives hospitals and healthcare facilities the ability to track the cost of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs).

3M HAI Cost Analysis Report combines software and services -- merging infection information and administrative (coded) systems -- to highlight the financial ramifications of HAIs, while giving hospitals the ability to develop business cases to support infection prevention initiatives.

The program fits into 3M Infection Prevention's mission of developing solutions to minimize the risk of HAIs, which, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report, are the most common complications of hospital care and one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States. By consistently gathering important metrics through the dual emphasis on data and cost associated with HAIs throughout the hospital, the new solution allows infection preventionists to apply the same degree of rigor to every aspect of infection control facility-wide.

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