Interactive antibiogram software that turns the yearly PDF into an online antibiogram dashboard filtered by unit, source and period

What the interactive antibiogram does in Antimicrobe

You upload the line list your lab already pulls for the annual report: a patient key, collection date, specimen source, unit, organism, antibiotic and the S, I or R the lab reported, or the MIC. Antimicrobe maps your column names once and remembers the mapping, so next quarter's file loads without the conversation.

Every view after that is a filter, not a new project. Pick urine only, the last twelve months, or the ICU, and the table rebuilds with de-duplication and suppression recalculated for that cut rather than inherited from the whole year. Cells under 30 isolates stay visible as a marked tile instead of disappearing, so nobody mistakes a gap for good news.

The counting rules are the ones described on CLSI M39 antibiogram software, and the columns most LIS exports carry are listed on laboratory information system integration. If all you need is the yearly table produced faster, the antibiogram generator page covers that narrower job.

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   LIS or instrument export

   One CSV with source, unit and date on every row

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   CLSI M39 rules

   First isolate per patient, 30 isolate floor, applied to every cut

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   Interactive views

   Filter by source, unit and period on screen

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   Print and CSV

   The view you settled on, ready for the committee or an app

• Specimen source, so urine, blood, respiratory and wound tables are separate
• Period, from a full calendar year to a quarter or a trailing twelve months
• Unit, such as the ICU, the emergency department or a single tower (Stewardship plan and above)
• Period comparison, the same cut across two years with the method held constant
• MDRO counts and empiric rankings by local percent susceptible
• CSV of any view and a clean print page, both stamped with the rules used and the generation date

Interactive antibiogram options compared

Hospitals that wanted an online antibiogram have taken five routes. The table is built from each option's own published material. The main difference is not the screen, it is who produces the numbers and how often.

The in-house Power BI route is real and some hospitals do it well, but it lives or dies with the analyst who wrote it. Dauphin and colleagues (ASHE 2023) reported that validating their Power BI antibiogram against the lab middleware turned up discrepancies caused by cascade reporting, which is the kind of rule a vendor tool has to handle for everyone. The enterprise surveillance platforms that bundle antibiogram views are compared on antimicrobial stewardship software for community hospitals.

Getting the online antibiogram in front of prescribers

An interactive antibiogram is a working tool for the people who own the data: the stewardship pharmacist, the microbiology lead, the infectious diseases physician and the infection preventionist. Seats are named (2 on Lab, 8 on Stewardship, 25 on Network), and the workspace is where the team decides which cuts belong in the published version.

Prescribers usually need something simpler, and the right answer depends on where they already look. Many hospitals print the agreed views as a pocket card and an intranet page. Others load the same numbers into the point of care app their residents already use, such as Sanford Guide Stewardship Assist or Firstline, both of which display an antibiogram your team supplies rather than calculating one. The print page and CSV from Antimicrobe are designed for exactly that hand-off.

The apps themselves, what they show and what they cost, are compared in antibiogram app for hospitals. Teams writing order sets from the tables can go on to empiric antibiotic therapy by your antibiogram.

Who buys interactive antibiogram software

Hospitals that also want ward-level work for critical care can see ICU antibiogram software, and those grouping isolates by infection type syndromic antibiogram software.

• Stewardship pharmacists who get asked for "the ICU numbers" or "urine only" every month and rebuild the spreadsheet each time
• Microbiology lab managers who own the annual report and want it produced in minutes instead of weeks
• Infectious diseases physicians presenting local resistance to the pharmacy and therapeutics committee
• Health systems that tried a Power BI antibiogram and lost the analyst who maintained it
• Community hospitals that want an online antibiogram without an EHR build request in a twelve month queue

How much does interactive antibiogram software cost?

Antimicrobe publishes its prices. The Lab plan is $249 a month for one facility, 25,000 isolates a year and two seats, with filters by source and period, CSV and print exports, and it is bought by card on the site. Stewardship is $749 a month for up to three facilities, 150,000 isolates and eight seats, and adds unit and syndrome cuts, quarterly trends and MDRO threshold alerts. Annual billing is half the monthly price.

The alternatives are priced differently. An in-house dashboard costs analyst hours plus BI licenses and maintenance every time the LIS export changes. Enterprise surveillance platforms and point of care apps do not publish prices and are quoted after a demo.

A full breakdown of the routes and what each really costs is in how much antibiogram software costs, and every plan limit is on the pricing page.

What this does not do

• It does not connect to the LIS or EHR over HL7. It reads files you export, as often as you export them
• It does not fire real-time alerts to prescribers or submit to NHSN
• It is not a public prescriber app. The interactive views are for named seats, and the published version goes out as print, CSV or into the app you already use
• It does not choose therapy for a patient or replace your institutional guideline