Quest’s Adult Preventive Care Calculator is an application that lists all the preventive care services required for an individual based on age and gender. Users can print the results to discuss with their doctor. CEO Jay Vonachen promotes the application to his employees.

Research shows that scheduling babies for delivery prior to 39 weeks gestation is connected to a higher likelihood of death, admittance to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and life-long health problems.

Yet, an astonishing number of deliveries occur too early with no medical need – 23 percent in Illinois, according to the Leapfrog Group. The numbers show wide variation among hospitals.

The Healthy Babies, Healthy Moms team wants to eliminate early elective deliveries in Illinois. 

In observance of National Influenza Vaccination Week (Dec. 4 to 10), Quest continues its reporting of the percentage of vaccinated employees at regional hospitals with the Flu Shot Percentage Report for the 2011-2012 flu season. It starts with October 2011 data and will be updated monthly through March 2012.

Data may actually be entered into the Central Illinois Health Information Exchange (CIHIE) in October. Volunteers gathered to honor the remarkable progress at the CIHIE annual meeting July 12.

How Much is Too Much? High Tech Imaging Use and Radiation Safety, a Quest-sponsored continuing medical education (CME) conference, was held in Urbana on May 24 and in Chicago on May 23.