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. GAIHN addresses these emerging threats through two modules:

• Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens (AR)

• Healthcare-associated infections (HAI)

GAIHN HAI acts to detect and prevent HAIs within healthcare systems to provide safe health care and protect patients, staff and visitors.  Globally, point prevalence surveys (PPS) provide a useful snapshot of HAI in hospital and other healthcare facilities. APHL in conjunction with its contract with Deloitte initiated a stakeholder analysis and requirements gathering in Indonesia, Philippines, Jordan and Brazil to identify or develop a data management software solution for PPS of HAI and antimicrobial use.

The GAIHN AR module 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.

GAIHN also works collaboratively through its AR module with CDC’s Global AR Lab & Response Network to address priority AR healthcare pathogens.

Project sponsor GAIHN-HAI: CDC/DHQP: Rachel Smith, Matthew Westercamp, Emily Peterson MD, Reed Magleby

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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Deliverables

• The primary deliverable for the GAIHN-HAI project is the development or identification of a comprehensive solution for the GAIHN-HAI network for the feasible collection and submission of standardized and high quality (valid) data for HAI point prevalence estimation. The aspiration is to develop a point prevalence survey software solution that assists in-country data collection coordinators and hospital personnel to readily obtain and document the necessary data elements and follow the logic and reflex decisions in the PPS protocol. 

• 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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