2025 AI Webinar Series

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a pivotal force across most industries, transforming the way we live, work, and solve complex problems. It is revolutionizing infection prevention and control (IPC) as well as healthcare, ushering in a new era of efficiency, accuracy, and proactive management. AI is quickly gaining traction as machine learning is being applied to more efficiently address tasks that have required significant human intervention in the past. With the increases in technology, we are now seeing technology approaching or exceeding in some cases a human’s ability to do the same tasks. Yet, what sets AI apart is its capacity to learn and evolve continuously. AI possesses the capability to sift through vast data sets, decipher complex data, anticipate needs, recognize patterns, and make insightful predictions. The integration of AI into IPC reflects a commitment to improving patient outcomes, optimizing healthcare processes, and addressing ethical considerations in the application of AI technologies.  

This series will provide tools for how IPs can become critical coaches in the deployment of these technologies within their organizations as the technology continues to emerge.  

See webinars in this series below. Please note, you will be registering for all webinars in this series.

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Aligned and Instrumental: The Future of Infection Prevention and Sterile Processing

CE: 1/IPU: 1 

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 @ 1 pm ET 

Garrett Hollembeak and Hank Balch

This presentation will explore the transformative power of AI in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), highlighting how AI-driven tools enhance decision-making, optimize resource allocation, and improve regulatory compliance within sterile processing and high-level disinfection. Attendees will learn how AI tools can streamline tasks, identify workflow deviations, improve communication, and create engaging educational content.

Learning Objectives:

Identify Key AI Applications in IPC and SPD:
Understand the various AI tools such as ChatGPT and DALLE, and how they integrate into daily workflows to streamline tasks, identify root causes of workflow deviations, and ensure compliance with evidence-based practices.

Enhance Communication and Compliance:
Learn how AI applications can improve communication between Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and Sterile Processing Departments (SPD) by bridging the lexicon gap and enhancing compliance through accessible AI-driven solutions.

Create Practical Tools and Engaging Education:
Discover how AI can build practical tools like SBAR and A3 builders to streamline problem-solving and communication processes, and how AI-generated educational materials can enhance the learning experience and retention of critical information for staff.

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AI Tools in Action  

CE:1/IPU:1 

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 1 pm ET 

Presentation 1: Leveraging AI for faster data analysis

Speaker: Marko Predic

Demonstrating the power of AI to more efficiently process, sort, and condense large Excel data sets. Demonstrating how IPs with limited excel background can become more proficient and save large amounts of time during data processing.

Learning Objectives:

Demonstrate how AI can aid in data processing of excel data sets for novice/intermediate excel users.

Presentation 2: Using ChaGPT as An Assistant During an Outbreak Investigation

Speaker: Carole W. Kamangu

This session will demonstrate how IPs can use free AI tools such as ChatGPT to analyze a datatest during an outbreak. It will also include the importance of following HIPAA rules throughout the process. This simplifies the data analysis process during an outbreak investigation and can allow IPs to scan through data quickly and get a summary much more easily. This is helpful while the outbreak is ongoing and can allow the IP to obtain summary information daily for internal reporting purposes, especially while juggling additional day-to-day obligations from their work.

Learning Objectives:

-Know some quick ways to analyze a dataset during an outbreak investigation by using ChaGPT without filtering large amounts of data. 

-Know how to create a quick summary of your outbreak status for reporting purposes within your team and facility stakeholders

Presentation 3: Using AI technology for NHSN Surgical Site Infection Surveillance at UCSF Health

Speaker: Christy Pak

Showcase tool developed using AI technology for detection and review of SSI cases

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How to make PPE and HH training fun and engaging?

CE:1/IPU:1 

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 @ 1 pm ET 

Bassel Molaeb and Bilen

This presentation will introduce the Blue Mirror artificial intelligence (AI) tutor, which is a virtual personal protective equipment (PPE) and hand hygiene (HH) trainer app. Blue Mirror is helping organizations improve their PPE and HH training programs in a cost-efficient, reliable, and repeatable way. We will discuss examples of how this tool increases reach and training equity, provides standard and repeatable training, enables fun and engaging training, improves memory retention, and enables fun and engaging training for personal protective equipment and hand hygiene in healthcare facilities.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduce the Blue Mirror artificial intelligence (AI) tutor concept.
• Explain how the Blue Mirror Trainer app increases reach and training equity and provides standard and repeatable training.
• Illustrate how this tool has demonstrated transformative power and provides sustainable, fun, and engaging training for personal protective equipment and hand hygiene in healthcare facilities.

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What Story Does Your NHSN Data Tell You, and How Can You Use AI (Microsoft CoPilot) to Enhance Your Analytics and Help Improve Patient Quality and Safety?

CE:1/IPU:1 

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 @ 1 pm ET 

Dr. Mickey Bansal and Kyle Willey

AI through tools such as CoPilot can be utilized on retrospective NHSN data to help make connections between patients that get surgical site infections compared to the overall surgical procedure population in a single hospital or healthcare system. We will demonstrate manual comparison methods, automated reporting methods, and AI tool methods of data aggregation and utilization in data storytelling.

Learning Objectives:

-Identify what data storytelling is
-Getting the story out of NHSN data
-Manual and automated storytelling
-Using CoPilot AI to make connections and improve storytelling

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Continuing Education (CE) Credit: 

In support of improving patient care, The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

 Nursing: 

• APIC designates this activity for 4 Nursing Contact Hours 

Physicians: 

• APIC designates this live course activity for a maximum of 4 PRA Category 1 Credits™ 
• Physicians should claim only the credits commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

IPUs: 

• APIC designates this activity for 4 infection prevention unit(s). 
• For more information, please see https://www.cbic.org/CBIC/Recertify/Recertification-by-Continuing-Education.htm