HIGH PERFORMANCE AND INTEGRATED NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION SURVEILLANCE AND EARLY DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF
First Claim
1. An integrated nosocomial infection surveillance and detection method through the internet, said method integrating the patient information and various clinical information in the hospital to achieve the high performance nosocomial infection control and surveillance, comprising:
- (1) providing a patient database;
(2) providing an clinical database;
(3) providing an infection monitoring dashboard integrating the information from the patient database and the clinical database based on the index column information of hospitalized patients into a set of related infection information for individual patient;
(4) providing a nosocomial infection surveillance model computing the infection information of the hospitalized patient to identify whether the patient is a suspected case; and
(5) allowing a user to access and browse the infection monitoring dashboard so that the user can further determine whether the patient is an infected case through the internet.
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Abstract
A high performance and integrated nosocomial infection control surveillance and detection system includes a patient database having a patient information, a clinical database having a patient clinical information, a nosocomial infection surveillance model with capability to detect suspected cases, an infection monitoring dashboard presenting an integrated view of a patient information and infection conditions in the clinical database for each patient. The patient database, clinical database, nosocomial infection surveillance model and the infection monitoring dashboard are built in different network servers or a network server to meet the optimum efficiency for a user to conduct infection control and early detection of infected cases through his/her account.
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1. An integrated nosocomial infection surveillance and detection method through the internet, said method integrating the patient information and various clinical information in the hospital to achieve the high performance nosocomial infection control and surveillance, comprising:
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(1) providing a patient database; (2) providing an clinical database; (3) providing an infection monitoring dashboard integrating the information from the patient database and the clinical database based on the index column information of hospitalized patients into a set of related infection information for individual patient; (4) providing a nosocomial infection surveillance model computing the infection information of the hospitalized patient to identify whether the patient is a suspected case; and (5) allowing a user to access and browse the infection monitoring dashboard so that the user can further determine whether the patient is an infected case through the internet. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An integrated nosocomial infection surveillance and detection system through the internet, said system integrating the patient information and various clinical information in the hospital, comprising:
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a patient database; a clinical database; an infection monitoring dashboard integrating the information in the patient database and the clinical database into a set of related infection information for individual patient, and providing a quick browsing interface comprising the whole patients sub-area, the suspected patients sub-area, the infected patients sub-area, and the geographic information of the suspected infection patients on the basis of the hospital wards and beds; and a nosocomial infection surveillance model for computing the infection information of the hospitalized patients to identify whether the patient is a suspected nosocomial infection case and feed back the results to the infection monitoring dashboard; wherein the patient database, the clinical database, the infection surveillance model and the infection monitoring dashboard are built in a network server or in different network servers to meet the optimum efficiency for a user to conduct infection control and early detection of infected cases through his/her account. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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