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Study Shows That MedMined Data Mining Surveillance(R) Helps Detect and Reduce Blood Culture Contamination; Results to Be Presented at 2006 APIC Conference

Posted on: Monday, 12 June 2006, 09:01 CDT

MedMined, Inc., a medical information technology company, today announced results of a recent study that showed how automated data mining surveillance helped clinicians detect and significantly reduce an endemic issue of blood culture contamination in a hospital's Hematology/Oncology unit. The results will be included in a poster presentation Tuesday, June 13, at the 2006 annual Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology conference.

The study was conducted at Hendrick Medical Center, a 453-bed hospital in Abilene, Texas, that began using MedMined's Data Mining Surveillance service in June 2005. After incorporating data mining surveillance house-wide, the hospital discovered that, in patients who had a hospital stay of three or more days, blood isolates caused primarily from skin flora occurred with the third most frequency. Further, the unit with the highest rate of blood isolates was Hematology/Oncology. After implementing process improvements, results from October to December 2005 demonstrated a 50 percent decrease in the overall number of isolates from patients on the unit, with a 61.5 percent decrease in isolates of skin flora.

About MedMined

MedMined is a Birmingham, Ala.-based medical information technology company founded in 2000 to provide data mining analysis and related technical, clinical, and financial consulting services to the healthcare community. MedMined's patented infection-tracking technology and proprietary service are being used by nearly 200 hospitals nationwide, covering more than 2.5 million hospital admissions yearly. The company has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, MIT's Technology Review, and other leading publications and organizations. For more information, visit www.medmined.com.

Note to editors: The Hendrick Medical Center poster will be presented by Patti R. Bull, BS, MS, CIC, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday, June 13, at the Tampa Convention Center.

Source: Business Wire

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