Identifying HAIs in a Hospital Setting: Automating Manual Processes

TITLE

Identifying HAIs in a Hospital Setting: Automating Manual Processes

OBJECTIVES

1. Discuss Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) and identify how to deliver high value patient outcomes

2. Define the laboratory’s role in the identification of pathogens using molecular diagnostics

3. Examine the value of laboratory information

4. Describe how technology and teamwork can contribute to performance driven healthcare

SPEAKER

Denise L. Uettwiller-Geiger, PhD, DLM(ASCP)

Clinical Transformation Liaison and Clinical Chemist 

Mather Hospital Northwell Health, Port Jefferson, New York

Dr. Uettwiller-Geiger serves as a clinical liaison to clinicians providing expert education, guidance, and consultation for laboratory testing. She received her Master of Health Science from Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York and an Advanced Certificate in Health Care Management, from the W. Averell Harriman School for Policy and Management, from Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, and a PhD in biomedical science from  Pacific Western University, Brentwood, California.

SPONSOR

Cepheid

P.A.C.E.®

SWACM is approved as a Provider of Continuing Education Programs in Clinical Laboratory Sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program. Completion of this program will provide 1.0 contact hour of continuing education. SWACM programs are approved for California-licensed clinical laboratory scientists and personnel. The instructional level of this program is intermediate.