Introducing ID Watch
Healthcare Hygiene magazine is partnering with noted infectious disease physician Ed Septimus, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, to bring the ID Watch publication to a wider audience of infection preventionists, healthcare epidemiologists, infectious disease doctors and other healthcare stakeholders who need executive summaries of the key studies, guidelines and recommended practices impacting the infection prevention and patient safety sector.
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A Q&A With Ed Septimus, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA
Q: If anyone doesn’t know you, how would you describe yourself and your contribution to the infectious disease community?
A: My career has focused on clinical ID with a focus on infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, and sepsis. I was vice president of research and infectious diseases at HCA until 2018. Part of my role was overseeing large multi-hospital studies collaborating with Harvard Medical School, CDC, and University of California Irvine. Our team has published several landmark trials impacting infection prevention, sepsis, and antimicrobial. In 2018 I moved to the Department of Population Medicine Harvard Medical as the liaison to HCA for the purpose of continuing our health science research.
Q: What do you love most about your work and why?
A: ID has been an incredible specialty. Challenging, but very rewarding. Antimicrobial resistance and emerging infectious diseases keep me up at night, but I believe I can make a difference by participating in meaningful research and teaching the next generation of healthcare professionals. I am passionate about teaching, and I believe that to teach is to learn.
Q: What led you to start ID Watch and how did it evolve?
A: ID Watch actually was born in 2020 as the Covid Daily Briefing. The knowledge gap around this new emerging virus was enormous. In creating this newsletter, I hoped to inform colleagues about the most recent information. The response was very favorable so I continued to publish Covid Daily Briefing until the end of 2021. At the end of 2021 I asked my readers if they would like to see not just Covid but more general infectious diseases. The response was overwhelmingly yes. So, in January I published the first issue of ID Watch, which is now published monthly.
Q: How do you want readers to use ID Watch?
A: The primary purpose of ID Watch is to provide summaries of what I consider are important articles across a wide spectrum of journals and specialties. I provide a brief summary, followed by my comments. ID Watch is a one-stop summary of the literature to help busy clinicians keep up with key publications.
Q: What are your hopes for the infectious disease community in 2025?
A: To continue to publish ID Watch and try to find ways to make it better. Every year I ask my readers what could be done better. I have gotten great suggestions which I have integrated into the newsletter like adding a section at the end of each review called bottom line. Providing links to key articles will help our readers with one click to find the article so they can take a deeper dive into a topic of interest. In the end I am committed to making the newsletter the best it can be and provide a service to my community.
Why ID Watch is Required Reading for the IP&C, Healthcare Epidemiology and Infectious Disease Sector
Comprehensive yet readily digestible, ID Watch provides readers with executive summaries of the most important studies in the medical literature, including The Bottom Line summaries and annotations from Ed Septimus, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, who specializes in therapeutics research and infectious disease epidemiology, through the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, as well as with Texas A&M College of Medicine.
ID Watch provides instance access to dozens of summaries of key studies impacting IP&C
A yearly ID Watch subscription is priced less than one whitepaper journal subscription
ID Watch's summaries will save you hours of time sifting through journals for the most pertinent information that month
ID Watch is produced in partnership with Ed Septimus, MD and Healthcare Hygiene magazine, a publication of Keystone Media Inc.
For more than six years, Healthcare Hygiene magazine, published by Keystone Media Inc., has been the science-driven alternative voice serving the IP&C sector. The magazine is part of a media, publishing, continuing education and ecommerce company owned and operated by a veteran publishing and education executive with more than 35 years of experience and 25 years specifically in the infection prevention niche.
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