The software was selected to automate surveillance of discreet patient data, streamline data collection and bring critical information to the clinician’s attention in an effort to help the hospital’s infection control team make better-informed decisions.
The field of infectious diseases is complex; software such as TheraDoc’s can expedite the daily work of the infection control team so that they can have a bigger impact on saving patients’ lives, said Leonard Mermel, Rhode Island Hospital’s medical director, department of infection control. When clinicians harness the software’s power to collect patient data, they will dramatically reduce the grind of data collection and make better use of their time.
Mermel added that hospitals and ICPs find it difficult to gather vital and diverse patient information from hospital departments in time to prevent infections, and it is hoped that TheraDoc’s program will provide the opportunity to address such issues by bringing infection rates and their relative antibiotic resistance levels to the attention of a hospital’s clinicians and infection control team in real-time and at the point-of-care.
TheraDoc will also install its Antibiotic Assistant, Infection Control Assistant and Clinical Alerts Assistant platforms at the hospital.
