Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Suite
AI guidance, certified specialist review and measured return for your hospital
The Challenge
Healthcare professionals struggle to keep up with constantly evolving infection control guidelines from multiple authoritative sources.
Critical access and rural hospitals often lack dedicated infection control specialists with time to research every question.
Difficult to quickly locate and verify the most current, authoritative guidance for specific scenarios.
The Stakes
Infections acquired in the hospital cost lives, and Medicare ties payment to them. These are the numbers a strong program moves.
CDC's 2023 survey estimates 518,000 HAIs a year in U.S. acute care hospitals.
For fiscal year 2026 that was 718 of 2,886 scored hospitals, an estimated $306 million. Five of the six scored measures are infections: CLABSI, CAUTI, SSI, MRSA bacteremia and C. difficile.
AHRQ pooled estimates (2015 dollars): surgical site infection $28,219, C. difficile $17,260, catheter-associated UTI $13,793.
The Impact
Healthcare facilities need immediate, accurate infection control guidance to:
Ensure patient safety
Prevent healthcare-associated infections
Maintain regulatory compliance
Protect healthcare workers
Built Around the Work Your Teams Already Do
Federal rules require every participating hospital to run an infection prevention and control program and an antibiotic stewardship program.source The assistant supports both with cited guidance on demand.
Preventionists review cultures, devices and charts against NHSN definitions to decide what counts as CLABSI, CAUTI, SSI, MRSA bacteremia or CDI. Ask the assistant for the current definition or protocol and get the cited source.
Clusters of resistant organisms, C. auris and respiratory viruses call for fast decisions on isolation, cohorting, screening and cleaning. Look up transmission-based precautions and outbreak guidance by organism.
Hand hygiene, central line and urinary catheter bundles, environmental rounds and staff education are daily work. Check what CDC, SHEA, APIC and WHO recommend before you write or revise a policy.
Hospitals report HAI measures to CDC's NHSN, which CMS uses to set payment. Antimicrobial use and resistance reporting has been required under Promoting Interoperability since 2024. State health departments add their own rules for HAI data, outbreaks and organisms such as C. auris, and those rules vary by state.source 1source 2
Stewardship pharmacists and physicians review active orders, approve restricted agents, and recommend de-escalation, IV to oral conversion and shorter courses. Pull the guideline behind a recommendation in seconds.source
Our Solution
A Full Suite for Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship
Software, specialist review and outcome measurement in one program. The AI assistant answers with citations, certified specialists review the content, and we measure what changes.
Leverages multiple AI models to generate accurate, contextually relevant answers to infection control questions.
Automatically updates with the latest guidelines from CDC, SHEA, WHO, APIC, and other authoritative sources.
Every response includes explicit references to the specific source guidelines used.
Cited answers to infection control and stewardship questions, drawn from current CDC, SHEA, APIC and WHO guidance.
CIC-certified infection preventionists and infectious disease physicians review the content and the AI output.
The models and the guideline library are kept up to date as CDC, CMS and state policies change.
We baseline your infection, antibiotic use and penalty numbers, then report return on investment and the effect on net operating income.
We run the before-and-after studies with your team and work with you to improve the numbers.
Integration with your electronic medical record is available, so guidance sits in the workflow your staff already use.
Why It Works: By combining the power of AI with authoritative infection control guidelines, healthcare professionals get immediate, accurate guidance they can trust and verify.
Results You Can Measure
We track return on investment and net operating income for your program, run the studies, and work with you to improve the numbers against your own baseline.
Published evidence on programs like yours. These studies evaluated infection control and stewardship programs at other hospitals. They did not evaluate this suite and are not a guarantee for any one hospital.
Pooled rate ratios: CLABSI 0.46, surgical site infection 0.46, CAUTI 0.54. Most of the 144 studies were before-and-after designs.
Also 51% fewer multidrug-resistant Gram-negative and 37% fewer MRSA infections and colonisations, across 9 million patient-days.
Antimicrobial consumption fell 19.1% and hospital length of stay 8.9% across 26 studies.
Key Features
Works with mainstream models, models customized on hospital data and models trained on public data, and falls back automatically if one is unavailable.
Every response includes explicit references to specific guidelines with source organization, publication date, and direct links to original documents.
Automatically fetches and processes the latest infection control guidelines daily, ensuring responses are based on the most current information.
Clean, intuitive interface designed specifically for healthcare professionals with minimal technical friction.
Runs on premises so questions and history stay in your environment. Built to support your HIPAA obligations, with a business associate agreement available.
Maintains a searchable history of previous queries and responses for quick reference and continuity of care.
Secure Deployment
Your data stays in your hospital. You choose where the models run and who maintains them.
Deployed as containers on a server or VM you control, inside your network and behind your firewall. Questions, answers and query history stay in your environment.
Run open-weight models on your own hardware and prompts never leave the building. Guideline updates are downloads from public sources and carry no patient data.
When a vendor handles ePHI on a hospital's behalf, HIPAA requires a business associate agreement. We sign one, and if you choose hosted models we route only to endpoints covered by their own BAA.source
Healthcare breaches averaged $6.64 million in 2026. Keeping data in one place you already govern means one less third party holding it.source
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, in line with the HIPAA Security Rule and other applicable standards.
Optional: we deploy the suite in your own data center and keep maintaining it, including updates, monitoring and model upgrades.
Authoritative Sources
Key Guidelines:
- • Isolation Precautions
- • Hand Hygiene
- • Environmental Infection Control
Key Guidelines:
- • Infection Prevention and Control
- • Hand Hygiene in Healthcare
- • Global Antimicrobial Resistance
Key Guidelines:
- • SHEA Guidelines For Infection Control
- • Implementation Guides
- • Position Statements
Daily Updates
The Infection Control Assistant automatically checks for updates from these authoritative sources daily, ensuring that all responses are based on the most current guidelines available.
User Interface
Response:
According to the CDC's guidelines, patients with C. difficile infection (CDI) should be placed on Contact Precautions. These precautions include:
- Private room with dedicated bathroom or commode
- Gloves and gown must be worn when entering the room
- Hand hygiene with soap and water (not alcohol-based hand sanitizer)
- Dedicated or disposable patient-care equipment
These precautions should be maintained until diarrhea resolves.
Citations:
CDC Guideline for Isolation Precautions
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Last updated: January 2023
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/isolation/index.html
Simple Query Interface
Clean, straightforward interface allows healthcare professionals to quickly submit questions without technical barriers.
Clear Citations
Every response includes proper citations to authoritative sources, allowing users to verify information.
Responsive Design
Works seamlessly on desktop and mobile devices, providing access wherever healthcare professionals need it.
AI Technology
The Infection Control Assistant is model-agnostic. Use hosted frontier models, open-weight models on your own hardware, or both, with automatic fallback between them.
Current mainstream AI models, used through endpoints covered by a business associate agreement or run on your own hardware.
Models customized on your hospital's own data, trained and kept inside your environment.
Models trained on public guidelines and published medical literature.
By comparing responses from multiple AI models, the system can identify the most accurate and comprehensive answer, ensuring healthcare professionals receive reliable guidance.
If one AI service is unavailable or unable to provide a satisfactory response, the system automatically falls back to alternative models without disruption.
Daily Updates
The Infection Control Assistant automatically checks for and processes the latest infection control guidelines from authoritative sources daily, ensuring all responses are based on the most current information.
Connects to authoritative sources (CDC, SHEA, WHO, APIC)
Extracts the latest guidelines and recommendations
Processes and structures the information
Stores in database with version tracking
Makes immediately available for AI responses
Always Current
Always provides the most current infection control guidance
Reduced Risk
Reduces risk of outdated or incorrect information
Time Savings
Saves time for infection preventionists
Change Tracking
Tracks changes in guidelines over time
Implementation
The Infection Control Assistant is designed for easy implementation in healthcare facilities of any size, with minimal technical requirements and straightforward setup.
- • Standard server or VM (16 core, 32GB RAM recommended)
- • 1TB storage with external backup options
- • Internet connection for guideline updates
- • Standard security measures (firewall, encryption)
- • Simple Docker-based deployment
- • Secure API key configuration
- • Automatic database setup
- • Initial guideline download (30-60 minutes)
- • Web-based access via browser
- • Mobile-responsive design
- • Integration with your EMR available
- • Business associate agreement available
- • Automatic daily guideline updates
- • Usage analytics and reporting
- • Automated database backups
- • Technical support available
Next Steps
Follow these steps to implement the Infection Control Assistant in your healthcare facility and start benefiting from AI-powered infection control guidance.
- • Technical requirements
- • Installation guide
- • API key setup
- • Security considerations
- • Set up server environment
- • Install using Docker
- • Configure API keys
- • Run initial guideline update
- • Introduce to staff
- • Provide access credentials
- • Collect feedback
- • Monitor usage and impact
Support and Resources
Comprehensive documentation is provided to guide you through every step of the implementation process. For additional assistance, technical support is available to ensure a smooth deployment.