Project Overview

APHL Informatics with funding and collaborative expertise from CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) is developing information system solutions in support of the Global Action in Healthcare Network (GAIHN).  GAIHN is a global collaborative network consisting of countries, institutions, and partners at global, regional, national, and subnational levels instituted by the CDC. These constituents work together to address emerging threats in healthcare settings through rapid detection and response. The GAIHN Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens AR module (GAIHN-AR) seeks to prevent and contain the spread of highly resistant organisms in healthcare systems to improve patient safety, reduce the burden of AR, and contain spread of rare and novel AR before it becomes endemic. The focus of APHL’s work in support of GAIHN AR informatics solutions is under development.

Project sponsor GAIHN-AR: CDC/DHQP: Fernanda Lessa, Olivia McGovern, Jamine Weiss, Paul Malpiedi

Project lead: Paul Jankauskas

Project manager: Kate Beagle

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• This GAIHN-AR project supports development of a standardized antibiotic stewardship indicator data collection solution. The expectation is to utilize an existing electronic data capture (ECD) solution (e.g. REDCap) that assists in-country data collection coordinators and hospital personnel to submit outcome indicators.  The raw data will come from individual hospital facilities and be analyzed and converted to indicator level data at the facility level. These indicators will be submitted in the ECD solution on a quarterly basis to CDC.  The data may include both qualitative and quantitative data. The solution is expected to be centrally deployed and cloud based for CDC to ingest the data and to meet the needs (initially) of ten country programs that are members of the GAIHN-AR network. 

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