QC PathFinder® – Infection Control

QC PathFinder is built to support today's busy infection preventionists (IPs) in surveillance and reporting in order to allow more time for intervention and education. Vecna understands the challenges of the job of IPs, and as a customer of QC PathFinder you’ll be given the best tools, training, and support you need to do your job better and more efficiently.

What does QC PathFinder do?

Monitor

QC PathFinder® monitors live microbiology, pharmacy, admissions, and other data sources to detect potential infections and outbreaks. Users receive automated alerts when data suggests that a patient has an infection. Examples of alerts are HAIs (BSI, SSI, UTI), MDROs, RCDs (reportable and communicable diseases), drug-bug mismatch, drug-drug interaction, and more.

Example of a QC Pathfinder alert screen

The methods used by QC PathFinder to detect possible HAIs have been checked against manual detection by the Veterans Affairs and found to have greater than 90% sensitivity and specificity.

Analyze

QC PathFinder automatically gathers relevant data such as patient and provider information, lab results, pharmacy orders, and location history, organizes and collates data so that the user can conduct in–depth investigations.

Flexible Line Listing Wizard

• Create reports within minutes
• Cut manual reporting and surveillance time in half
• Save custom reports for repeated use

Configurable Control Charts

• Detect trends and clusters by location, organism, and specimen type
• Create C, G, and P charts instantly
• View actionable events and track results

Act

QC PathFinder displays information in real–time so that IPs can take clinical actions quickly. QC PathFinder reduces the amount of time needed to complete and submit reports to national data collection agencies such as NHSN.

In addition to standard reports for infection control, QC PathFinder can generate pharmacy reports for antimicrobial stewardship including but not limited to:

• Drug-Bug Mismatch
• Adverse Drug Events
• Restricted Drugs
• IV to PO Exchange
• Drug-Drug Interactions
• Duplicate Therapy

Pharmacists can document and track intervention in the application as well as create reports on results of intervention. [Pharmacy Information]

Benefits

Increase Efficiency

IPs spend more than one-third of their time on manual surveillance, which consists of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. [Grota, P.G., “Electronic surveillance systems in infection prevention: Organizational support, program characteristics, and user satisfaction,” AJIC, Vol. 38, No. 7, pp. 509-513]. Because QC PathFinder® helps the IP identify infections in real-time through automated alerts, it significantly reduces the amount of time spent on manual surveillance.
[CASE STUDY - Increase Efficiency]

Save Money

QC PathFinder; helps reduce costs at your hospital by reducing the average length of stay and antibiotic spend, maximizing reimbursements, and minimizing fines and penalties.
[CASE STUDY - Reduce Infection]
[CASE STUDY - Antimicrobial Stewardship]

Improve Quality of Care

QC PathFinder significantly reduces the amount of time IPs spend on manual surveillance, allowing more time for intervention. Real-time alerts on patient safety events enable faster response, thus increasing overall quality of care.

Vecna's Product Suite
QC PathFinder can be combined with other Vecna products, such as kiosks and web portal, to provide robust end–to–end solutions for a wide variety of healthcare information tracking and reporting challenges.