ICNet Next Generation - "Go Live" Autumn 2020
New Trust-wide Infection Control IT System Coming Soon
Three Phase Roll-Out
Infection Control Functionality
Surgical Site Infections
Antimicrobial Stewardship (Pharmacy)
ICNetNG will provide:
- A holistic approach to clinical surveillance, outbreak management and antimicrobial stewardship, with customisability to meet the future needs of the trust.
- Improved the patient pathway and experience
- Immediate alerting in near real-time, facilitates timely management and early identification of outbreaks and other potentially critical situations
- Client focussed (rather than solely IPC Team)
- Unlimited licences with trust wide access tailored to user requirements
- Replaces AuditR infection control audits
Highlighted Features
- Electronic notification to associated area as soon as a patient is diagnosed with an infection (eg. MRSA and respiratory viruses)
- Infected patients can be moved to an isolation room immediately preventing potential cross transmission and outbreaks
- Patient contacts be easily identified and monitored
- Immediate individualised prescribing
- Improved visibility and patient bed flow for the Site Teams
- More efficient daily infection control tasks increasing IPC Team availability to ward areas
- Reduction of antibiotic pressure to reduce HAI such as C difficle and multidrug resistance acquisition organisms.
- Improvement in healthcare associated surgical site infection rates