Patent ID: 7908153

Claim:
An infection control and workflow management system, comprising: a repository including worker information identifying healthcare workers for performing infection control tasks as well as worker associated communication data for use in informing healthcare workers of infection control tasks to be performed; at least one processing device comprising, a detection processor for automatically detecting infection in patients from data in at least one of, (a) a patient medical record accessed upon admission of a patient to a hospital and (b) a laboratory test result; and a workflow processor including an event monitor for identifying events comprising detection of infection, using data from a hospital information system, said workflow processor using said worker information for automatically communicating a message to inform a healthcare worker of a task to be performed to initiate infection control tasks of an infection control process using communication data in response to at least one of, the detection of an infected patient and the identified event and automatically tracking different concurrent infection control processes for corresponding different patients and determining steps to be executed next by at least one of said healthcare workers.