Infection prevention
Infection prevention software focused on the organism side of the problem
Infection prevention teams are asked to watch organisms, devices, procedures and people. This tool helps with exactly one of those.
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Short answer
Infection prevention software usually means a surveillance platform covering healthcare-associated infections, device days and case review. Antimicrobe is narrower: it summarises resistance from your susceptibility data, by unit and by quarter, so the organism picture is current without a full platform.
What the resistance half looks like
The questions infection prevention brings to microbiology data are about counts and movement in a specific place: how many carbapenem resistant isolates in the intensive care unit this quarter, whether the methicillin-resistant fraction of Staphylococcus aureus is drifting, whether this ward differs from that ward.
Those are all the same filter set as the antibiogram, read with different intent. The report a preventionist wants shows counts alongside percentages, because for a rare phenotype the count is the story.
That organism side is what antimicrobial resistance surveillance software covers: MDRO counts by unit, quarterly trends and the cumulative antibiogram from one lab export.
What this is not
If the patient-level side is what you need, line lists, isolation flags and NHSN LabID reporting, the platforms that do it are compared in best MDRO surveillance software for community hospitals.
- Not a healthcare-associated infection surveillance system, and it does not compute NHSN definitions
- Not a case management or contact tracing workflow
- Not connected to the electronic health record, so it knows nothing about devices, procedures or admissions
- Not a real-time alerting platform, because it works on the export you provide
Working alongside a full platform
Plenty of facilities already run an enterprise surveillance suite and still build the antibiogram by hand, because the suite is scoped to alerting rather than to cumulative reporting. Using both is a normal arrangement, and this side stays useful precisely because it is narrow.
If the suite in question is Sentri7, the Sentri7 alternatives and competitors page shows which parts overlap, and the antimicrobial stewardship software features page lists what this side covers. If it is BD HealthSight Infection Advisor, the product formerly sold as MedMined, the MedMined and BD HealthSight alternatives page covers what to keep and what to move.
At an Epic hospital the suite in question is often Bugsy, sometimes with a platform beside it. The 2026 KLAS scores and the build effort are compared in Epic Bugsy alternatives for hospital infection prevention.
Related reading: carbapenem resistant organism tracking, comparing units and facilities. The four steps from susceptibility testing data to an antibiogram cover the method end to end.
Questions
On this page's topic
Can we track methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus over time?
Yes, as the non-susceptible fraction from the oxacillin or cefoxitin result, by unit and by quarter, with the isolate counts shown.
Does it flag an outbreak?
It shows movement between periods against a threshold you set. Deciding that something is an outbreak is epidemiology, and it belongs to your team.
Do you store patient identifiers?
The browser demo stores nothing at all. For an account, a pseudonymous per-patient key is sufficient, and we would rather you never send us a direct identifier.
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