Infection Control & Contact Tracing

Principal workflows

• Detect: Positive results for organisms and conditions you choose arrive from your laboratory system and open an index case for an infection preventionist to review.
• Trace: For the exposure window, the product lists the patients who shared a room or unit with the case and the staff assigned to them, using bed movements, care team assignments and location data where available.
• Follow up: Exposed patients go to their units for isolation or testing actions, and exposed staff go to employee health, with each action tracked to completion.
• Manage outbreaks: When cases are linked, they are grouped into an outbreak with a timeline, a unit map and a record of control measures, ready for leadership and the health department.

Who uses it

• Infection preventionists and hospital epidemiologists
• Employee and occupational health teams who follow up exposed staff
• Nurse managers and unit leaders who act on isolation and cohorting decisions
• Quality and patient safety leaders who report healthcare-associated infections
• Emergency management teams who coordinate outbreak response

Reporting

• Open cases, contacts and overdue follow-ups
• Isolation status by unit
• Outbreak summaries and epidemic curves
• Health department line lists, released by your staff
• Cases by organism and unit over time
• Organism rule history for surveyors

Features

• Location history: A patient's rooms, beds and units over any period, assembled from admission, discharge and transfer messages and shown as a timeline.
• Contact lists: Patients and staff who overlapped with a case in the exposure window, each with the type of contact, place and length of overlap.
• Organism rules: Exposure windows, contact definitions and follow-up actions set per organism or condition by your infection prevention team.
• Real-time location data: Where your facility has a real-time location system, badge and tag data adds staff and equipment proximity to the contact list.
• Exposure review: Infection preventionists decide who is considered exposed; the product proposes contacts and records each decision and its reason.
• Patient follow-up tracking: Isolation, testing and other actions for exposed patients, assigned to units and tracked until they are complete.
• Employee health handoff: Staff exposures sent to employee health with the date, type and place of exposure, and work restriction and testing decisions recorded there.
• Outbreak workspace: Linked cases, an epidemic curve, a unit timeline and a record of control measures for each outbreak.
• Unit and room view: Who occupied a room or unit over a chosen period, for exposures linked to a place, such as a contaminated room or shared equipment.
• Health department line lists: Line lists and case summaries in the format your health department asks for, prepared by your staff and released by them.
• Isolation status board: Patients on transmission-based precautions by unit, with the reason and when precautions were started.
• Equipment exposure tracing: Where equipment is tracked, the patients a shared device was used with between cleanings, to support device-related investigations.

Integrations

• Laboratory information system: Positive results for the organisms and conditions on your watch list, received by HL7 interface.
• EHR admission, discharge and transfer: Patient admissions, bed moves and discharges, used to build location histories.
• Staff scheduling and assignments: Shift schedules and patient assignments from your staffing or nurse assignment system, so staff contacts reflect who cared for the patient.
• Real-time location system: Where installed, badge and tag locations for staff and equipment add proximity detail to contact lists.
• Employee health system: Staff exposures sent to the employee health system you use, or worked in the product's employee health view.
• Public health reporting: Line lists and case summaries exported for your staff to submit to the health department or NHSN through their own channels.
• Single sign-on: Staff sign in through your identity provider (SAML or OpenID Connect).
• Work API: Case, contact and outbreak data available to your data warehouse through the Moraph Work API.

Deployment

• Moraph cloud: Hosted and operated by Moraph in the United States region, with interfaces to your laboratory, EHR and staffing systems.
• Dedicated environment: A single-tenant environment for health systems whose policies require isolation, scoped in the proposal.
• Health system deployment: One deployment across several facilities, so staff and patients who move between them can be traced, with each facility's team seeing its own work.

Security and privacy

• Single sign-on: Staff sign in through your identity provider, so your password and multi-factor policies apply.
• Role-based access: What each person sees follows their role and unit, and employee health information is visible only to employee health.
• Business associate agreement: Moraph signs a business associate agreement with your organization, because the product processes protected health information.
• Encryption and keys: Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with keys Moraph staff cannot use without explicit, time-bound authorization.
• Complete audit trail: Every view, decision, export and report release is logged with the person and time, and cannot be edited.
• US hosting: Data is hosted in Moraph's United States region; every release passes security testing gates and ships with a software bill of materials.

Limitations

• Contact lists are only as complete as the location, assignment and schedule data you provide. Without a real-time location system, contacts are based on rooms, units and assignments, not proximity.
• It does not decide who is exposed. It proposes contacts under rules your team sets, and infection preventionists make and record each decision.
• It is not a laboratory system or an EHR, and it does not place isolation orders; it tracks the actions your staff take in those systems.
• It does not submit reports to the health department or NHSN. Your staff review, approve and submit them through their own channels.
• Visitors and contractors are traced only where your facility records their location, such as through a visitor management system you connect.
• It does not provide clinical guidance on treatment or prophylaxis; follow-up actions are the ones your policies define.
• Employee health workflows follow your policies and applicable employment law; the product records decisions but does not set work restriction criteria.
• It is designed for US facilities and reporting requirements; public health reporting formats in other countries are not included.

Next steps

Book a demonstration or a technical briefing at www.moraph.com/solutions/infection-control-and-contact-tracing. Purchasing routes and company information: www.moraph.com/how-to-buy.