Purpose
1.2. Automates data collection about infections, incidents, and control measures across facilities.
1.3. Automatedly generates, validates, and submits reports to authorities, reducing staff manual work.
1.4. Ensures reporting consistency, audit trails, and real-time notifications for compliance officers.
1.5. Supports infection trend tracking and automating escalations as thresholds are crossed.
1.6. Integrates with EHR, incident logs, and regulatory portals for end-to-end reporting automation.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Scheduled daily/weekly reporting periods as required by health authorities.
2.3. Automator detects anomalies or threshold breaches (e.g., infection spike triggers automated alert/report).
2.4. Staff submission of infection control intervention automatedly triggers reporting sequence.
2.5. Mandatory audit period or random inspection cycle automatedly triggers retroactive compliance report generation.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: “Scheduled cloud flow” triggers periodic infection data aggregation; configure “Create item” for SharePoint automated reporting records.
3.2. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: “New record in EHR” zap triggers “send email” to compliance; customize “Formatter” for automated report formatting.
3.3. Make (Integromat)
• Feature/Setting: “HTTP Webhook” automates EHR-to-regulator data push; use JSON parsing for infection data.
3.4. Google Apps Script
• Feature/Setting: Timed triggers automate Google Sheets reporting, submitting automated infection stats to regulatory inbox.
3.5. Slack API
• Feature/Setting: “chat.postMessage” automates infection alerts in compliance channel when new events are logged.
3.6. Twilio
• Feature/Setting: “Programmable SMS” automates text alerts to infection prevention team on outbreak detection.
3.7. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: “Mail Send API” automates regulatory report dispatch with infection summaries to authority emails.
3.8. Salesforce Health Cloud
• Feature/Setting: “Process Builder” automates compliance tasks upon incident log updates; auto-create regulator case.
3.9. Cerner Open Developer Experience (CODE)
• Feature/Setting: “FHIR API” automates pulling infection observations for population reporting.
3.10. Epic App Orchard
• Feature/Setting: “Reporting Workbench API” automates infection report compilation for batch export.
3.11. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: “Scheduled event” triggers “infectionReportHandler” function for compilation and S3 storage.
3.12. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: “Pub/Sub Event” automates the real-time infection entry event handling and report emailing.
3.13. DocuSign API
• Feature/Setting: “eSignature envelope create” automates compliance approval signature routing.
3.14. Docparser
• Feature/Setting: “Document parsing rule” automates extraction of infection data from faxes/emails for reporting.
3.15. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: “Flow Designer” triggers automated compliance case creation from EHR incident entries.
3.16. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: “Data Shuttle” automates pushing infection control data into live compliance dashboards.
3.17. Tableau
• Feature/Setting: “Web Data Connector” automates infection statistics pull for visual compliance reporting.
3.18. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: “Automation recipes” automate status and alerting workflows as infection events logged.
3.19. Jira Service Management
• Feature/Setting: “Automation rules” auto-create compliance tickets for each regulatory reporting deadline.
3.20. Power BI
• Feature/Setting: “Dataflow scheduled refresh” automates daily pull of infection data for report generation.
Benefits
4.2. Automatedly accelerates response times and intervention on outbreaks.
4.3. Guarantees standardization and auditable reporting flows.
4.4. Minimizes risk of missed deadlines with scheduled automation.
4.5. Automates regulatory adaptation as rules and data formats evolve.
4.6. Staff time saved by automating repetitive documentation and communication tasks.
4.7. Enhances data security and privacy by reducing manual data handling.
4.8. Automatable triggers facilitate proactive rather than reactive compliance.