Mobile Display of Information about Aggregated Antibiotic Resistance in the Hospital Setting Supported by Near Field Communication.
Antibiotic resistance is a heterogeneous phenomenon. It does not only differ between countries or states, but also between wards of hospitals, where different resistance patterns have been found. To support clinicians in administering empiric antibiotic therapy, we developed software to present information about antibiotic resistance using a mobile concept. A pre-existing infrastructure was deployed as the server component. The systems analyze and aggregate data from laboratory information systems, generating statistical data on antibiotic resistance. The information is presented to the Android client using a Representational State Transfer (REST) interface. Geographical localization is performed using near field communication (NFC) tags. The prototype provides tabulated data concerning antibiotic resistance patterns in the wards of a hospital. Using Android, NFC, and data caching, the usability of the system is estimated to be high. We hypothesize that antibiotic stewardship in hospitals can be supported by this software, thus improving medical monitoring of antibiotic resistance. Future studies in a productive environment are needed to measure the impact of the system on the outcome of patient care.
AKh Linz GmbH, Linz, Austria.
Philipp
P
Meng
Medexter Healthcare GmbH, Vienna, Austria.
Karsten
K
Fehre
Section for Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
Andrea
A
Rappelsberger
Medexter Healthcare GmbH, Vienna, Austria.
Klaus-Peter
KP
Adlassnig
D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D063731:Mobile Applications; D012984:Software