Evaluate IPC software by following one response from first concern to review. A dashboard should help the team find the relevant records and unfinished work. It should also make clear which decisions and external communications remain with people. Use the questions below to assess fit for your service. Guidance reviewed 25 September 2026.
Can the team trace the infection record?
Start with a fictional infection and inspect the person, location, infection type and known onset information. Check how unknown dates are represented and corrected. Follow the record into related outbreak and exposure work.
Ask who can see the information and who can update it. In the outbreak workflow, check how suspected outbreaks are declared. Test the handover with someone who did not create the original record.
Can people coordinate the response?
Review the line list, exposure contacts, lead coverage and tasks. Confirm which role receives each outbreak task kind and follow a task through completion. Review exposure-contact follow-up ownership separately.
Change the case count and review what the next shift sees. Check how the facility or home-care service area is represented. Confirm the process for incomplete location information and for containing or closing an outbreak.
What does the notification workflow actually do?
Ask whether the software sends a notification, prepares information or records a notification completed elsewhere. These are different capabilities. Check the time, reference and notes your team can retain.
The Department’s guidance directs providers to local public-health advice. Confirm how staff review any software target against that advice. Assess possible SIRS reporting separately; an outbreak status does not settle reportability.
Check the scope of audits and stewardship
Ask to see the actual hand hygiene, environmental audit and antimicrobial review workflows you intend to use. Confirm where each record is kept and what must remain in an existing clinical or quality system.
The Commission’s clinical infection-control guidance describes context-appropriate IPC and antimicrobial stewardship responsibilities. Map those responsibilities to people, processes and evidence; do not assume that an IPC module includes every required function.
What Statura Care provides
Statura’s IPC module supports recorded infections, suspected outbreaks, line lists, exposure contacts, response tasks and lead coverage. It records public-health notifications completed externally, with time, reference and notes. Reporting views show recorded infection types, trends and status breakdowns.
For serious-harm review, the infection workflow supports flagging the concern and linking an existing SIRS incident. Your team determines reportability and completes the required external submission.
Use a tailored demonstration to confirm the complete workflow for your service. Record agreed scope and any additional systems in your software evaluation workbook.