STEP-BY-STEP NHSN importing CSV and ASCII files

Ravi Pallipamu, MBA, MicrobiologistCDPH HAI Program

http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravipallipamu R_pallipamu@hotmail.com,

206-334-2845

For the Infection Preventionist/Infection control practitioner

http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn

Purpose

To facilitate Mandatory Reporting of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs).

Performed by Infection Preventionist or Infection control practitioner

Summary

IP does not have 3rd party software vendor to facilitate transfer of patient data to NHSN.

Wants to ease data entry in NHSN Wants to understand the benefit of importing Wants to know how to ask the right questions

from LAB or IT staff.