Infection control-termendous need for data

Introduction / objectives Real-time high-quality data is a vital requisite to control HAI (Hospital Aquired Infections). Early identification of epidemics’ spreading dynamics is of prime importance to locate the source of HAI and take measures in hospitals to a national level. Yet, technical possibilities to influence necessary key indicators and putting authorities in an acting rather than reacting position are not entirely used. Today’s proceedings use notification by fax with receiving instistutions passing them on to RKI (Robert Koch Institut) for further research and publishing. This results in low notification rates, data privacy issues, slow communication and few data mining possibilities. Authorities cope with incomplete forms and manual transcription into various systems.