When we are admitted to hospital, we have confidence in the system and the doctors; we trust that they will do everything to cure us. Yet some patients become more ill while they are hospitalised because they acquire an infection – and in severe cases, some of them die of
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Hospitals use SAS for antibiotic stewardship to focus on using antibiotics in a rational way. The purpose is to reduce antimicrobial resistance and excessive or inappropriate prescription of antibiotics. In this short blog post, I answer five of the most common questions concerning how data can prevent antimicrobial resistance. 1. Why
The use of antibiotics is growing rapidly. Excessive or inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics and lack of follow-up on treatments results in antimicrobial resistance. The antimicrobials become resistant, and therefore they do not act on antibiotics as expected. This makes treatment ineffective, and already now 20-50 percent of all antibiotic prescriptions
New technologies offering new ways to solve complicated and costly problems are entering the health care sector . Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of them. To succeed with AI, you need to think in an analytical manner, to build an analytical organisation and, as a part of that, you need an analytics
The Danish government wants to increase the quality of health care treatments by measuring 25 selected indicators based on eight national values within health care. The purpose is to make it easier for local health care professionals to improve the quality of their work. In 2016 the Danish government introduced
Today it is possible to use freeform text from patient journals in data management to support healthcare professionals in their daily decision making. This blog post elaborates on how hospitals can automate their diagnostic coding to be more efficient, reduce errors, and improve quality and patient safety. This is the second blog
Excellent quality of patient treatment and patient safety is highly prioritised on the health care agenda in the Nordic countries. As a result, the demand for measuring quality has increased, and is closely followed by certain special demands for documentation and data quality. If not handled intelligently, this can be
Using data driven management as a method is one way to renew the health-care sector and ensure greater efficiency without loss of quality and good care. Advanced data analyses enable new, well documented decisions that result in better efficiency, higher quality, visible results and lower costs. That is why it is
Hospital-acquired infections is a topic both clinicians and politicians take very seriously in The Region of Southern Denmark. And they’re not resting on their laurels. The region is now presenting tangible action plans and expanding a system to enhance the prevention and treatment of unwanted infections through the use of
The agreement on the regional economies for 2016 states that hospitals in Denmark will develop tools “that support common decision-making, skill development, and systematic use of patient-reported data (PRD)” by the end of 2019. The work is well underway and the new and more detailed goals mean that we’re now