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    Infection control

    Helping protect patients and healthcare workers from infectious diseases.

    Oversee, assess and manage infections

    In the year to November 2016, tens of thousands of people acquired infections in acute settings, complicating their recovery process and increasing their length of stay. With microorganisms developing antimicrobial resistance, infection prevention activities need to be brought to the next level, which is where Cerner comes in. Our solutions provide the analytical information you require to tackle healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs).

    Aiding surveillance

    Our infection control solutions include near real-time surveillance capabilities, featuring an interactive worklist for patients who are at risk of infection and clinical summaries of patient-specific data. This includes a module that informs you what lines, tubes and drains a patient has had and can alert you when it’s time to change or remove them. Your worklist streamlines the observation process with patient risk-stratification based on historical and current data to help you focus your resources in the most effective way.

    Offering a single interface

    Detailed clinical patient summaries are tailored to allow you to quickly drill down to essential facts, such as a patient’s identity. Cerner’s infection control solutions directly access the unified Cerner Millennium® architecture to extract data from the electronic health record as a by-product of the care delivery process eliminating the need for separate interfaces.

    Analysing and reporting

    Our solutions offer flexible, easy-to-use reporting capabilities with helpful standard reports and the ability to create customised reports to match your particular needs. In addition, the system can automatically identify outbreaks of specific microorganisms and unusual patterns of infection, and send the reports directly to local government to help minimise any possible spread of healthcare-associated infections.

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    Client quote

    "We’ve seen quite the reduction in catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) because it gives the physicians that real-time data that can drive them to know who to go round with first and find out why this patient still has a catheter."
    — Christine Gironda, director of enterprise analytics, Stony Brook University Hospital

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