Use of a Computerized Clinical System as a Monitoring Tool for Infection Control
چکیده
Assuta Tel Aviv hospital of the Assuta Medical Centers Network is a 300 bed elective surgical hospital. The hospital performs about 40,000 surgical procedures. The patient record in the hospital is a computerised system (Metavision, IMDsoft, Tel Aviv, Israel) which collects all pertinent data regarding the patients We developed tools which collect and organize the data regarding patients who have relevant information to infection control processes. These tools were designed to improve the efficacy and workflow of the IC team. We created a number of presentation screens: 1. Re-admitted patients in whom a pathogen was isolated on a previous admission trigger an alert to the IC team 2. Positive cultures of a resistant organism trigger an alert to the treating team including instruction regarding appropriate isolation. When information on a resistant organism is introduced in to the system, the system indicates type of isolation needed for the specific pathogen, the required equipment for each type of isolation and the kind of follow up each patient needs. The IC team receives an automated alert and has a layout presenting all patients with resistant organisms 3. There is automated monitoring of patients with central catheters to follow their duration and clinical data. Digital Healthcare Empowering Europeans R. Cornet et al. (Eds.) © 2015 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License.