Healthcare Magazine March 2015 | Page 25

07 Infection-Detecting Technologies
MOST EFFICIENT PIECES OF HOSPITAL TECHNOLOGY
ach the broadest patient population ia plan . The basics of any social tal ’ s readiness , experimenting with ologies and services , establishing a ing analytics to see how a hospital ’ s

07 Infection-Detecting Technologies

An example of an infection detection technology is the procalcitonin , or PCT , test for a hospital ’ s sepsis program . The test is a tool that detects sepsis earlier , therefore avoiding the overutilization of antibiotics . It is cost-effective over the long term because it will allow hospitals to diagnose and manage infections more successfully and reduce the hospital ’ s need to pay for costly antibiotics .
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