It is not a fact that people must get hospital-acquired infections. The goal ought to be the prevention of every single hospital-acquired infection.

There are still a significant number of hospitals ... that are not benefiting from the overall increase in revenue.

In FY05, statewide average total and operating margins reached their highest levels since FY94, when PHC4 began publicly reporting these measures for all hospitals. The growth in FY05 financial margins was driven by a 90 percent increase in operating income.

At least some in the purchaser community, who have been paying 20 percent and 25 percent increases in their health insurance premiums, will take notice of this rising tide.

People are looking to replace their firewall, or add in-line antivirus, or are looking to add intrusion prevention systems. They typically deploy with one or two services activated, and slowly migrate to new features.

This is a campaign that is really designed to make prevention first rather than waiting until people get sick and have symptoms and chronic disease.