By Jeff Turner
Jan 31, 2021
The University of Nebraska Medical Center, in partnership with Nebraska Medicine, has been awarded a $9.5 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to enhance infection prevention and control (IPC) initiatives in small and rural health care facilities and advance the ability of health care workers to provide safe and effective clinical care.
Three innovations are being proposed for this project:
The Isolation System for Treatment and Agile Response for high-risk infections (ISTARI) Care Cube 2.0;
the Mixed Reality for Consultation, Assessment and Education; and
theNational Infection Control Strengthening (NICS) for Small and Rural HospitalsInnovation Test Bed Network.