ASSESSING SURGICAL SITE INFECTION SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES: The ASSIST Project
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The increasing use of mobile devices by patients to send images and text messages to surgeons and care teams after surgery presents new opportunities for both clinical and public health practice. Used wisely, this rapidly evolving application of information technology can produce enormously important benefits for individual patients, ambulatory surgical centers and hospitals, practitioners, and infection surveillance and prevention of surgical site infection (SSI).
Assessing Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Technology (ASSIST) is a project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SHEPheRD program to evaluate the use of patient-generated health data (PGHD) and mobile devices in post-operative SSI surveillance. This evaluation has culminated in a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) report which presents our findings. The HTA outlines best practice recommendations and gaps in current knowledge on the use of mobile devices and PGHD in SSI surveillance in several areas, including practice, research, and public health surveillance to address CDC’s clinical and public health priorities.
As part of our work we are inviting public comment on the HTA, which will be posted on our website between January 7th and February 28th, 2019. We invite you to come to https://assisthta.wixsite.com/project/blog to review the HTA report and provide comment. Feedback will inform revisions to the HTA submitted to CDC.
Thank you,
The ASSIST Project Team
Heather Evans, MD, MS
Co-Principal Investigator
Vice Chair of Clinical Research and Applied Informatics
Professor of Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
William Lober, MD, MS
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor, Health Informatics and Global Health
University of Washington
Danielle Lavallee, PharmD, PhD
Co-Investigator
Research Associate Professor, Surgery
University of Washington
Jenney Lee, MA
Qualitative Research Coordinator
Surgical Outcomes Research Center
University of Washington