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.

The problem it solves

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.

Who it’s for

• 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

1. DetectPositive results for organisms and conditions you choose arrive from your laboratory system and open an index case for an infection preventionist to review.
2. TraceFor 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.
3. Follow upExposed patients go to their units for isolation or testing actions, and exposed staff go to employee health, with each action tracked to completion.
4. Manage outbreaksWhen 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.

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.

Infection preventionist

Reviews cases, decides who is exposed, assigns follow-up and manages outbreaks

Hospital epidemiologist

Sets organism rules, oversees outbreaks and approves reports to the health department

Employee health

Follows up exposed staff and records testing and work restriction decisions

Unit manager

Carries out isolation, testing and cohorting actions for patients on their unit

Quality analyst

Prepares surveillance and outbreak reporting without changing exposure decisions

Auditor or surveyor (read-only)

Views cases, outbreaks, reports and the audit trail without changing them

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.

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.

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.

Data sources

We connect your laboratory, admission and transfer, and staffing data, and real-time location data where you have it. We need contacts from each system's team.

Unit and room mapping

Units, rooms and beds are mapped so locations from different systems line up, including shared spaces your team wants traced.

Organism rules

Watch lists, exposure windows, contact definitions and follow-up actions are configured with your infection prevention team and approved by your hospital epidemiologist.

Employee health workflow

Staff exposure handoff and work status sharing are set up with employee health, either in the product or with your existing system.

Retrospective testing

Past cases chosen by your team are traced in the product and compared with the lists your team built at the time.

Training and go-live

Infection preventionists, employee health, unit managers and analysts are trained on their own workflows before go-live.

• 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.

• Trace a past case your team worked by hand and compare the contact lists
• Check that rooms and units from your ADT and staffing data line up correctly
• Have an infection preventionist work a case from positive result to closed follow-ups
• Confirm what unit managers and employee health can each see about the same exposure
• Build a sample outbreak and review the line list your health department would receive
• Review how organism rule changes are proposed, approved and recorded