HAI surveillance against CDC definitions. CAUTI, CLABSI, VAE and SSI are tracked against CDC definitions, with compliance trends built automatically.
The basics
What is infection control software?
Infection control software helps a hospital's infection prevention and control (IPC) team find, prevent and report healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). It replaces paper audit forms and spreadsheet surveillance with automated case detection, bedside audits, outbreak alerts and committee-ready reports.
Strong IPC programmes matter. The WHO estimates that up to 70% of healthcare-associated infections can be prevented. Software does not prevent infections on its own, but it shows the team where practice is slipping early enough to act.
Source: WHO Global Report on Infection Prevention and Control (2022).
What Ibhar does
Everything an IPC team runs. On one platform.
MDRO and outbreak alerts. A rules engine checks vitals, symptoms and cultures to flag events, MDROs and outbreak patterns, and escalates them to the right team.
Hand hygiene on the WHO Five Moments. Auditors record observations on a phone at the bedside, on night shifts as well as day shifts.
Bundle and departmental audits. Care bundles and department checklists, with every finding assigned to a named owner.
Committee-ready reports. Infection control committee reports and KPIs fill themselves from the day's data.
Incidents and risk. Mobile incident reporting, root cause analysis and a living risk register, on the same platform.
Evidence
Proven in hospitals. Published in journals.
- 800+hospitals with Ibhar implementation experience
- 161Khand hygiene opportunities in a 92-facility study published in AJIC
- ~500Kpositive culture records analysed
- 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 infection control software.
- Guideline-native surveillance. HAI definitions should follow CDC and WHO, so rates are comparable and defensible. Ibhar builds them into every workflow.
- Works with your EMR and lab. Data should flow from the HIS and LIS, not be re-keyed. Ibhar works with Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), InterSystems TrakCare and other systems.
- Audits at the bedside. Observations captured on a phone, in the moment, are more complete than forms filled in later. Ibhar's audits are mobile-first.
- IPC, stewardship and microbiology together. The same patients and cultures drive all three. Ibhar runs them on one data model.
- A complete audit trail. Every observation, alert and approval should be logged and attributable, with role-based access.
- Published evidence. Ask for peer-reviewed work and reference hospitals. Ibhar's research is published in AJIC and IJMM.
Questions
Answered.
Infection control software helps a hospital's infection prevention and control team detect, prevent and report healthcare-associated infections. It automates HAI and MDRO surveillance, captures hand hygiene and bundle audits, raises outbreak alerts and produces committee reports.
CAUTI, CLABSI, VAE and SSI against CDC definitions, MDROs and outbreak patterns, hand hygiene compliance on the WHO Five Moments, care bundle and departmental audits, incidents and risks.
Yes. WHO core components and CDC definitions and observation tools are built into every workflow, with CLSI-aligned microbiology.
Yes. Ibhar works with Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), InterSystems TrakCare and other HIS and LIS platforms. Data connections depend on each site's interfaces and are validated during implementation.
Yes. Ibhar runs infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship and AMR surveillance on one platform, so the IPC team, microbiologists and prescribers work from the same data.
A proof of concept typically runs for three to six months, scoped to the hospital's own high-risk areas and run with its existing teams before any wider rollout.
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