INFECTION CONTROL ASSISTANT
Get real-time tools for infection prevention and control. With the TheraDoc® Infection Control Assistant®, you'll increase your hospital's quality of care and save patient lives.The CDC estimates that every year, nearly 2 million infections are acquired in healthcare settings, and around 90,000 people die from those infections. This dangerous threat to your patients' safety also threatens your hospital's fiscal health. In 2005 alone, infections accounted for more than $4.5 billion in excess healthcare costs—and hefty penalties for hospitals1. To reduce this financial burden, enhance quality of care, and most importantly, save lives, you need real-time tools for infection prevention and control. You need the TheraDoc® Infection Control Assistant®.
Spend less time on surveillance and more time on intervention. Leveraging all available clinical data—including real-time information from laboratory, radiology and surgery—the Infection Control Assistant promptly delivers relevant patient information and medical knowledge. Even better, it fully supports clinical confirmation. No more hunting and gathering data. No more manual analysis of post-event information that's two months old. With the Infection Control Assistant, you get the right information at the right time to make the right decisions. You get the ‘Gold Standard´ for electronic infection surveillance.
Enhance your hospital's quality of care—and keep your patients safe. The Infection Control Assistant provides continuous infection surveillance, intelligent alerts, and timely analysis on the infections that threaten your patients. And that means you can stop the spread of infectious disease in real-time. You'll also get on-demand antibiograms, so you can track organism resistance throughout your hospital or in a targeted location. Armed with these crucial tools, you can quickly find and confirm infections, identify trends, and confidently initiate interventions—and that can make the difference between life and death.
Increase ICP productivity and decrease your healthcare costs. Designed by ICPs for ICPs, the Infection Control Assistant works the way you do—and empowers you to do your job faster and more effectively. It features the powerful and configurable IC Workbench™ that will significantly increase your efficiency. Not only does it gather information about potential infections and place it at your fingertips, it also allows you to conduct surveillance, clinically confirm infections and document interventions. This powerful tool makes it easier to analyze trends, implement control measures, and meet expanded mandatory reporting requirements quickly and accurately. With this newfound ability to reduce infection rates in your hospital, you'll also reduce your hospital's financial penalties for non-reimbursed medical costs. And with fewer infections jeopardizing your hospital environment, you can spend less time on damage control, and more time on education and prevention.
Get real results with the TheraDoc Infection Control Assistant.
- John Hopkins Hospital reduced time spent on BSI surveillance by 80%, achieved HAI confirmation 50% faster, while achieving 98% accuracy.
- Rhode Island Hospital estimates that ICPs reduce the amount of time they spend at their desks reviewing micro and other reports by as much as 30-50-percent.
- Johns Hopkins Hospital improved identification of patients requiring isolation and timeliness of implementing isolation for patients with eleven different multi-drug resistant bacteria and viruses by an average of 72 hrs per patient.
- In 2002, during an international sporting event in Salt Lake City, a local hospital identified influenza in the athlete's village and intervened before it spread to other athletes.
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
