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Pennsylvania hospitals oppose infection reporting requirement
Quality Improvement Monitor, June 8, 2007
Pennsylvania healthcare officials agreed on the need to reduce hospital-acquired infections, but this week said they oppose proposals to require reporting them electronically via a single statewide system, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Such technology is "very costly," Paula Bussard, the senior vice president for policy and regulatory services at the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, told the AP.
Lawmakers are looking at legislation that would reduce hospital-acquired infections, one of several initiatives the governor is pushing in his "Prescription for Pennsylvania" that aims to reduce the cost and widen the availability of healthcare, the AP said.
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