Patent ID: 8595029

Claim:
A computer system for managing the risk or occurrence of infection, the computer system comprising one or more computer processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable memories storing: a module configured to identify one or more environmental cleaning practices for managing a source of measurable risk of infection, wherein the environmental cleaning practices are selectable for a given health care facility; a module configured to identify one or more compliance indicators associated with the one or more environmental cleaning practices, wherein at least some of the compliance indicators quantify a measure of quality associated with delivery of corresponding environmental cleaning practices; and a module configured to monitor the compliance indicators to achieve a desired level of management of the risk of infection, wherein the desired level of management is in compliance with a rule for management the risk of infection, wherein the module configured to monitor the one or more compliance indicators generates a flag when a given environmental cleaning practice is not in compliance with the rule to thereby manage the risk of infection.