Antibiograms for empirical therapy. Prescribers see the hospital's current susceptibility pattern when they choose treatment, before cultures are back.
The basics
What is antimicrobial stewardship?
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is a coordinated hospital programme that promotes the right antimicrobial, at the right dose, by the right route, for the right duration. It aims to improve patient outcomes while slowing antimicrobial resistance and reducing harms such as C. difficile infection.
The CDC Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs set out what a programme needs: leadership commitment, accountability, pharmacy expertise, action, tracking, reporting and education. AMS software supports action, tracking and reporting, so the stewardship team spends less time collecting data and more time reviewing patients.
Source: CDC Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs.
What Ibhar does
The whole stewardship programme. Built into prescribing.
Suggested drug and dose. Guidance supports the prescriber's judgement. It never replaces it.
Approval workflows. Restricted antimicrobials route to the stewardship team for approval, with every decision on record.
Pharmacist time-outs. 48- and 72-hour time-outs, IV-to-oral conversion and duplicate-therapy checks keep each regimen in line with hospital policy and the culture result.
Adherence monitoring. Compliance with hospital treatment guidelines is tracked from prescription to cessation.
DDD and DOT tracking. Antimicrobial use is measured as defined daily doses and days of therapy, ready for the stewardship committee.
Evidence
Proven in hospitals. Published in journals.
- 800+hospitals with Ibhar implementation experience
- 7.1%lower antibiotic use (DDD) in a three-year stewardship study using Ibhar, published 2025
- 25large hospitals in the AHPI and Pfizer stewardship programme
- 100hospitals in the VAMR national AMR study
A few of the 800+ hospitals where Ibhar has been implemented
- Peer-reviewed research naming Ibhar in the American Journal of Infection Control, the Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology and Medical Principles and Practice.
- The VAMR study of MDR, XDR and PDR organisms across 100 hospitals in India runs on Ibhar's clinical microbiology platform, with WHO as technical partner. About VAMR
- Recognised by the Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx) at the United Nations General Assembly.
Choosing a platform
What to look for in antimicrobial stewardship software.
- Built into prescribing. Stewardship works best at the moment of the decision. In Ibhar, prescriptions originate in the HIS and stewardship is layered on top.
- Your own antibiogram. Guidance should reflect your hospital's resistance pattern, not a national average. Ibhar's antibiograms update as cultures are reported.
- The measures that matter. DDD, DOT, guideline adherence and time-out completion, without manual counting.
- A closed loop with microbiology. Culture results should reach the prescriber and pharmacist, not just the chart. Ibhar connects the lab, pharmacy and prescriber.
- Support, not override. Clinicians stay in charge. Ibhar's guidance informs the decision and records it.
- Proven in programmes. Ibhar supports 25 large hospitals in the AHPI and Pfizer stewardship programme.
Questions
Answered.
Antimicrobial stewardship software helps a hospital's AMS team guide, approve, review and measure antimicrobial prescribing. It brings the antibiogram and treatment guidelines into prescribing, routes restricted drugs for approval, prompts time-outs and tracks antimicrobial use.
Prescriptions originate in the HIS. Ibhar layers in antibiograms, dosing suggestions, approvals, adherence monitoring, time-outs and DDD/DOT tracking.
Yes. Antimicrobial consumption is measured as defined daily doses (DDD) and days of therapy (DOT), alongside guideline adherence.
No. Antibiogram-informed guidance supports prescriber judgement and never replaces it. Every decision and approval is recorded.
Yes. Ibhar works with Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), InterSystems TrakCare and other HIS and LIS platforms, and the scope is agreed with each site.
Ibhar has been implemented in more than 800 hospitals. Examples include AIIMS New Delhi, Max Healthcare, CMRI, MIOT International, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Peerless Hospital, Bangalore Baptist Hospital, CMC Ludhiana, MGM Healthcare and New Mowasat Hospital in Kuwait. Ibhar also supports 25 large hospitals in the AHPI and Pfizer stewardship programme.
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