Infectious Disease Management

ATG’s Infectious Disease Management solution allows epidemiologists to visually track the locations of positive cultures reported by the microbiology lab. The solution is a web-based interface between the CAD layouts of the medical campus and the microbiology laboratory data. This allows the systematic upload of positive cultures and their locations, that exclude any patient-specific information.

The Infectious Disease Management application consists of the following components:

Lab Information

Connection: ATG creates a site-to-site Virtual Private Network, between its SQL Server and Client SQL Server.

Extraction: Based on agreed upon time interval, patient test data will automatically be extracted from Client servers. Time interval is customizable and can vary between a day, a week or a month. All patient identification information will be stripped out and extracted data can potentially be according to the following format:

• Culture Collection Date
• Culture Positive Date
• Culture Source
• Organism Type
• Building
• Floor
• Room Number
• Bed
• Unit

Drawing Stacking Diagram

• Select and view 3 floors in separate frames
• Select start and end date in the filter
• Drawings are stacked one on top of another
• Each room that is positive is identified with a horizontal bar and color-coded by specific disease
• Length of bar identifies number of occurrences in that room

Drawing Hatching Diagram

• Ability to query the database and hatch (color code) the drawing based on multiple query parameters
• Example query would be to search for a specific disease in a particular floor

Data Charting

• Analyze the database and come up with sophisticated pie, bar, and stacked charts for easy decisionmaking

Data Reports

• Ability to provide a pre-defined data list of all problem areas
• Ability to summarize various data points