Digitizing Infection Prevention & Control to help Manage COVID-19 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to the long-term care sector and its capacity to handle critical issues related to infection prevention and control. Infections and outbreaks affect resident care both directly and indirectly, creating multiple challenges for frontline staff and management to provide quality care.
In early April, PointClickCare launched an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) solution for all of its customers in Canada and the United States. IPC is a clinical workflow and intelligence solution that helps Infection Preventionists and care teams perform ongoing resident surveillance focused on infection prevention. The capabilities of the Infection Prevention and Control solution include:
-Access to a repository of infection cases in a single, accessible location to ensure that care staff and administration can effectively manage infection cases
-Replace the manual efforts required to compile infection case information, including COVID-19, by attaching information already documented in PointClickCare
-Capture resident condition using industry accepted standards to correlate the symptoms of infections to ensure a consistent approach in all residents showing signs of infection
-Interactive dashboards that display real-time infection case information
At least 33 facilities in British Columbia have deployed the IPC solution (as of June 2020), with more being added every week.
In this session, PCC product experts, as well as local operators, will provide participants with an overview of the solution, and how it can enable homes to prepare and manage a second wave of COVID-19. Local operators, including The Care Group, will speak about their experience deploying the solution across their homes and how it informed their response to COVID-19. They will also lead a discussion on how they are preparing for a potential second wave, and what lessons they have learned from their experience in dealing with the pandemic these last few months. The focus will be on how not just data, but actionable insights can help operators and staff prepare for and manage infections and outbreaks on an ongoing basis.
This session will:
-Increase your understanding of key IPC principles in long-term care, and the data that is needed to support them
-Provide a discussion how data can inform the operations of the home, including care delivery and managerial decision making to support residents and staff
-Allow you to learn from the experiences of operators in managing the first wave of COVID-19 and how they are preparing for a second wave