Infection surveillance software that finds the case before the reviewer does
Healthcare associated infection surveillance is the systematic review of patient data to identify infections that developed as a result of care, applying CDC NHSN definitions so rates compare between facilities. About 1 in 31 hospital patients has at least 1 healthcare associated infection on any given day. Neurobird screens lab, device and admission data to surface candidate events, walks the NHSN protocol question by question, and builds the monthly submission from work already done.
Neurobird Infection Prevention Surveillance in short
- Surface candidate events from lab and device data instead of manual line list review
- Walk the NHSN protocol question by question so the determination is reproducible
- Count device days from the source rather than a paper tally
- 1 in 31 US hospital patients has at least one healthcare associated infection on any given day. CDC
- 687,000 Approximate healthcare associated infections in US acute care hospitals in a year, with about 72,000 associated deaths. CDC
- Pricing runs 600 to 2400 US dollars per month across 3 tiers. Early access is free.
What hospital infection prevention teams actually deal with
Why it stays broken
Case finding is still 2 to 3 hours of reading line lists by hand. The definitions are precise, the reviewer is applying them from memory under time pressure, and the denominators are a paper tally. None of that is a skills problem. It is a tooling problem that nobody solved because the market looked too small.
Roughly 687,000 healthcare associated infections occur in US acute care hospitals each year, across 6 tracked protocols and about 3,000 reporting facilities.
The prevention and control of MDROs is a national priority, one that requires that all health care facilities and agencies assume responsibility and participate in community-wide control programs.
Neurobird Infection Prevention Surveillance Document Automation Platform
Narrow what a human has to read, then make the determination reproducible. The preventionist still decides, because that is a clinical judgement and should stay one.
- 1Surface candidate events from lab and device data instead of manual line list review
- 2Walk the NHSN protocol question by question so the determination is reproducible
- 3Count device days from the source rather than a paper tally
- 4Assemble the monthly NHSN submission from work already done
What changes with Neurobird Infection Prevention Surveillance?
The same work, read left to right: how it runs today, and how it runs once the record is in one place.
| Today | With Neurobird Infection Prevention Surveillance |
|---|---|
| Case finding means reading line lists by hand every morning to spot which lab results might be an event | Surface candidate events from lab and device data instead of manual line list review |
| NHSN definitions are precise and the reviewer is applying them from memory under time pressure | Walk the NHSN protocol question by question so the determination is reproducible |
| Denominator counts get tallied on paper, so device days are an estimate and the rate is soft | Count device days from the source rather than a paper tally |
Who is this for?
Same protocol, three very different pressures.
Surveillance is half of one role
You are the infection preventionist, the employee health nurse and the emergency preparedness lead. You need case finding that shrinks the reading, not another dashboard.
You report on 6 protocols
CLABSI, CAUTI, SSI, VAE, MRSA and C diff each have their own definitions and denominators. You need them applied the same way every time.
You compare across facilities
Your rates only mean something if every facility applied the definition identically. You need the determination trail, not just the number.
What healthcare associated infection actually costs
Useful if you are making the case for surveillance resource internally. Every figure links to its source.
Approximate healthcare associated infections in US acute care hospitals in a year, with about 72,000 associated deaths.
CDCThe CDC surveillance system most US hospitals report into, and the source of the standard definitions.
CDC NHSNCentral line associated bloodstream infection, one of the most closely tracked and most preventable event types.
CDC training case studiesMany states require infection control programmes and reporting in facility regulation, on top of CMS conditions.
Texas HHS infection control trainingCase review, as your team would work it
A working preview. Tick a requirement to file evidence against it.
Watch the fields extract from the document.
How does Neurobird Infection Prevention Surveillance work?
Screen the source data
Lab results, device days and admissions are screened against the criteria that usually precede a reportable event.
Work the protocol
Candidates queue for review and the NHSN protocol runs question by question, so 2 reviewers reach the same answer.
Build the submission
Determinations roll into the monthly NHSN summary with device day denominators counted from source, not tallied on paper.
Infection prevention surveillance software questions, answered
Key terms
- What is HAI surveillance?
- Healthcare associated infection surveillance is the systematic review of patient data to identify infections that developed as a result of care, applying standard definitions so rates can be compared between facilities and reported to CDC NHSN.
How common are healthcare associated infections?
On any given day about 1 in 31 US hospital patients has at least one. Across a year that is roughly 687,000 infections in acute care hospitals, with about 72,000 associated deaths. The 6 NHSN protocols exist because those numbers respond to measurement.
Does this submit to NHSN for us?
It builds the submission from the determinations your team has already made and formats it for NHSN upload. A preventionist still signs off, because the determination is a clinical judgement and should stay one.
How does case finding work?
Lab results, device days and admission data are screened against the criteria that usually precede a reportable event. Candidates are queued for review. It narrows what a human reads, it does not decide for them.
Is patient data handled appropriately?
Yes. It is designed for PHI: access is role based, every view and change is logged, and data stays within your environment. Ask us for the security detail before you evaluate.
Why we are building this
Infection surveillance is one of the few clinical jobs where the definitions are published, precise and freely available, and the tooling still assumes you will apply them from memory while reading a spreadsheet.
The result is that a highly trained preventionist spends the morning on case finding instead of prevention. That is the part worth automating, and only that part. The determination itself stays with the clinician.
We would rather build this alongside preventionists than guess. Tell us what your morning looks like, and where we have got it wrong.
Where the requirement comes from
Where the definitions and the reporting duty come from.
- CDC National Healthcare Safety Network The surveillance system and the source of the standard event definitions used nationally.
- CDC healthcare associated infection data National prevalence and burden figures, the numbers used to justify programme resource.
- CDC NHSN patient safety training Protocol training and worked case studies for each event type.
- Texas HHS infection prevention and control training An example of state level infection control programme requirements for facilities.
How much does Neurobird Infection Prevention Surveillance cost?
Priced per facility because surveillance is a facility level obligation. Systems with multiple hospitals get one roll up.
- Automated case finding
- NHSN protocol walkthrough
- Device day denominators
- Monthly summary export
- Email support
- Everything in Single facility
- All 6 event protocols
- Unit level rate reporting
- Reviewer audit trail
- Named contact
- Everything in Hospital
- Cross facility benchmarking
- Standardised infection ratio tracking
- Role based PHI access controls
- Onboarding and security review
Get free early access
If you do case finding, tell us how your morning actually starts. We want the real workflow, not the ideal one.
Straight answer on where this is: In development. Early access gets you the working preview, influence on which protocol ships first, and early access pricing. It does not get you a login today, and it does not touch PHI until you have reviewed our security posture.
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