Healthcare associated infections (HAI) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are significant global threats. Technology such as Bluebird can dramatically improve clinical efficiency, reduce adverse events, improve clinical outcomes and deliver significant return-on-investment.
Bluebird is a cloud based, tightly integrated infection control and antimicrobial stewardship and clinical decision support (CDS) solution that improves the efficiency of clinicians and the safety of patients allowing more to be accomplished with fewer clinical and IT resources. Bluebird institutionalize best practices
and facilitates compliance with regulatory mandates. Bluebird was designed from the ground up to exceed both the American CDC and the Australian
Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care guidelines and currently helps more than 70 large facilities in Southern Africa consistently achieve best practice.
Bluebird helps manage HAI and AMR by providing real time identification of “At Risk” patients and then ensuring early, effective and audited action to ameliorates that risk.
Bluebird’s intelligent algorithms aggregate real time data to identify patients where clinical intervention would do the most good. Actionable intelligence is provided at the bedside in order to facilitate optimal decision making. A systematic, standardized and efficient clinical workflow helps ensures that important risks to patient safety are not overlooked and that the workload is balanced with the clinical resources available in that specific unit.
Role based, intuitive interfaces are available to unit managers, doctors, infection control nurses and clinical pharmacists. Allocated tasks are tracked to completion. Sophisticated wizards such as one for VAE ensure that HAIs are accurately and consistently classified. Tools for supervisory oversight are provided.
Targeted prospective audits of antibiotics with tight feedback to prescribers are included as part of the pharmacist’s work list. CDS is provided, for example, if a neonate has Vancomycin prescribed, Bluebird can show the recommended dosing specific for that baby.
Bluebird offers a comprehensive library of potential alerts and, importantly, tracks any alert fired to resolution. Cascading alerts ensure that life threatening conditions such as bacteraemia, meningitis, CRE and CRPA are addressed urgently and nothing slips through the cracks.
Bluebird's Active Outbreak Management is another powerful tool that saves lives in a healthcare facility.
While it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage the complexity inherent in modern medicine, technology such as Bluebird can dramatically reduce adverse events and improve clinical outcomes.