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MedMined, Inc., a medical information technology company, today announced the introduction of the Nosocomial Infection Marker (NIM(TM)), a new feature of its Data Mining Surveillance(R) technology that for the first time allows an accurate, electronic measurement of the incidence of hospital-acquired infections. The NIM was introduced at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) 15th Annual Scientific Meeting in Los Angeles.

With an estimated 2 million patients each year acquiring infections while hospitalized, reducing the incidence of hospital-acquired (or nosocomial) infections is a key patient safety issue. Due to resource limitations, however, many hospitals use manual "targeted" surveillance methods. As a result, many hospitals don't have the ability to track infections throughout their facilities, limiting the opportunity for infection-prevention efforts.

To address this challenge, MedMined developed the patent-pending NIM, an electronic marker that uses sophisticated algorithms to analyze existing microbiology laboratory and patient census data to identify hospital-acquired infections.

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