Getting started with Infection Control & Contact Tracing

Infection Control & Contact Tracing reconstructs where patients and staff were inside your facility from admission, transfer and bed data, care team assignments and, where you have one, your real-time location system. When a case is confirmed, your infection preventionists see the people who may have been exposed, decide who needs follow-up, and track isolation, testing and employee health actions to completion. During an outbreak the same records show how cases are connected across units and time.

What it is for

When a patient tests positive for a transmissible infection, infection preventionists have to work out who shared the room, the unit, the equipment and the staff. That means pulling bed histories from the EHR, asking managers for staffing sheets, and building exposure lists in spreadsheets, often days after the exposure. Employee health works from a separate list, follow-up testing is tracked by hand, and when an outbreak spans several units it is hard to see how cases connect or to show the health department what was done.

• Bed histories and staffing records are pulled by hand from several systems
• Exposure lists are built in spreadsheets and differ between infection prevention and employee health
• Follow-up testing, isolation and work restrictions are tracked separately
• Outbreak timelines are hard to assemble 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

Before you start

• Your organization licenses Infection Control & Contact Tracing from Moraph.
• A Moraph client account in that organization, signed in.
• Access to Infection Control & Contact Tracing in Moraph Apps, given by an administrator in the Moraph Portal under People and access.
• For setup: the product administrator role.

Steps to get started

1. Sign in at app.moraph.com with your Moraph account.

2. Open Infection Control & Contact Tracing from the launcher. The first time anyone opens it, its workspace is created from the default described in Workspace reference.

3. Check your role: what you can see and do depends on it. See Roles and permissions.

4. Product administrators: work through Set up Infection Control & Contact Tracing before your team starts.

5. Everyone else: start with Everyday tasks.

Where to go next

• Set up Infection Control & Contact Tracing
• Everyday tasks
• Connect your systems
• Security, data and compliance
• Troubleshooting and the support guide
• Product overview on moraph.com