Examples of Kiyo, Inc successes....
- The development and management of A Study for the Validation of Data Reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) system. The focus was on the accuracy and completeness Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI) occurring in 8 hospital ICUs in Delaware. This involved the development of 2 microbiologic databases using all blood-cultures results both positive and negative from the microbiology laboratories of all 8 participatory hospitals.
- The development and management of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) Data Quality Review and Chart Audit. This was a data validation process to review the completeness and accuracy of HAI data reported by Maryland non-federally owned hospitals via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) system. This included 45 hospitals and 94 Intensive Care Units. Reported infections under evaluation included Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI); Surgical Site Infections (SSI); Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs); and Clostridium difficle-associated Disease (CDAD).
- A website for a political event - Augmented by micro-targeted mailings. The event successfully brought in funds that exceeded the projections by tens of thousands of dollars.
- A cartographic based analysis of a political campaign - The analysis successfully predicted the winner and accurately detailed which precincts would be key to the election.
- Developed a distributed computer system to track the 50,000 ocean going commercial ships on the high seas. Applied data analysis techniques used to find unsafe practices in a large hospital to solving the GIS problem of finding that one freighter that carries contraband. This was a multi-year, multi-million dollar project funded by a consortium of government agencies.
- These are just a few examples of Kiyo Inc's successes.