Project Description
Localized guidance published directly to your mobile device
Used by over 130,000 clinicians, worldwide, MicroGuide™ is a software services platform that provides access to a bespoke clinical content management system to create, edit, and publish localized clinical guidance to the mobile devices of clinicians, and to a web viewer on their intranet, so they always have the latest guidance at patient point of care.
Features
MicroGuide™ was initially implemented at University Hospital Southampton Trust in the UK to support antimicrobial stewardship. One of the most critical challenges for any hospital is antibiotic resistance and the outbreak of bacterial infections such as Clostridium difficile. The primary objective of MicroGuide™ is to promote adherence to the latest prescribing guidelines, and make them easily accessible on a mobile device, from bedside to remote locations outside a hospital.
Content Management System
Our content management system is a live, secure web service that allows content editors to manage and publish their guideline at any time, from anywhere. The service is provided as a hosted solution with no hardware or software to install. Healthcare organization administrators access the system through a password protected gateway, where they can create, edit and publish guidance content with the aid of pre-built structures, condition templates, drug lists, and calculators.
Mobile Device Application
Clinicians access published guidelines with the MicroGuide™ mobile device application. The app is free, and available on Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems. Each time a healthcare organization updates a guideline, their users will be alerted and the latest version automatically downloaded to their mobile device. Clinicians will always have the latest guideline at the point of care, even in locations with limited network access.
Web Viewer
Healthcare organizations often have strict policies about who can and cannot use mobile devices throughout their facilities, as well as requirements to have clinical guidance available on desktop computers at all times. Our web viewer is a live website with a unique web address for each guideline, that can be embedded on an organization intranet.
Decision Support Module
This service enables medical specialists to easily create algorithms based on a simple question and answer format in Microsoft Excel that can be imported into the content management system. The user is asked 4–6 simple questions and, depending on their input, the system will recommend an outcome (ex. a drug regime) that is appropriate to their patient’s unique condition or profile.
User Interface Design Versatility
In addition to antimicrobial clinical guidance, many of our clients have created a library of guidelines across a range of topics such as oncology, pain management, diabetes, wound care, and emergency medicine. MicroGuide™ is especially useful as an educational tool to facilitate clinical decision making in teaching hospitals.
Metrics
Client Testimonials
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Here at the VCU Health System, we have around 1,000 MicroGuide users and our overall experience has been that
MicroGuide is an eloquent and simple solution for providing point of care guidance for practicing
clinicians in terms of optimal antibiotic prescribing.
Michael Stevens, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Associate Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases
Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
MicroGuide has supported a sustained reduction in prescribing of high-risk broad-spectrum antibiotics from 40% to 28%, coinciding — alongside successful infection prevention initiatives — with a fall in Clostridium difficile infections from 60 a month to less than 10 a month.
Here at University Hospital Southampton we recently implemented the Decision Support Module (DSM) onto our MicroGuide platform. Feedback from front-line clinicians indicates that the DSM is popular and is helping doctors to tailor antibiotic therapy to the unique circumstances of individual patients. We are confident that the addition of DSM to MicroGuide will further improve the quality and safety of patient care, resulting in better clinical outcomes, as well as promoting antimicrobial stewardship.
Dr Kieran Hand, FRPharmS
Consultant Pharmacist for Anti-infectives
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Through thoughtful design and implementation of a mobile CDS, our AST is better able to provide cutting-edge clinical recommendations directly to the fingertips of prescribers in our institution. Successful implementation allowed us to broaden the scope of what was initially an antibiogram-focused delivery platform to standardized guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of infections and delivery of infection control and epidemiological information.
Brian Hoff, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Infectious Diseases
Co-Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Department of Pharmaceutical Care