Infection Control Survey Software

It could be argued  that the best cure for hospital acquired infections may not be antibiotics or disinfectant on the wards, but the use of controls, involving the timely delivery of surveillance data. If you gather the information about the incidence of infection and then feed it back to the medical team, the Board, and now (more recently), the public, the number of cases drop.

Infection Control Surveillance is the collection and analysis of information that enables trends of infection to be monitored and therefore problems can be identified and targeted for action.  Surveillance also conforms to the guidelines of Clinical Governance; where feedback and evidence-based practice provides accountability for NHS Trust Management.

Formic’s range of solutions already provides many NHS Trusts with the capability to easily and accurately capture data on the front line, in real time.  We also provide tools to assist with the consolidation, analysis and reporting of information, leading to much faster feedback to clinicians, Trust Management and patients.  With the accompanying reduction in manual effort, professional staff are able to focus on using the information collection to drive improvement in infection control outcomes.

Formic makes it easy to capture data in a way that suits:

 

-  Paper data capture with scanning

-  Online data capture (web forms)

-  Mobile handheld devices (tablet PC, PDA, mobile phone, touchscreen)

-  Kiosk (fixed or mobile)

 

Our software comprises three modules that reduce the time spent at each stage of the survey process: Survey Design, Data Capture, Analysis and Reporting.

Collected data can be fed in to Patient Administration Systems (PAS), Microbiology or Laboratory Information Systems (LIMS) and Infection Control Management (ICM) systems such as ICNet or simply exported to Microsoft Access, ASCII, XML, ODBC or SPSS for rigorous statistical analysis.

 

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