Antibiotic Resistance
MicroGuide™ tackling antibiotic resistance and improving antimicrobial stewardship,
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100,000 users in NHS
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MicroGuide™ global leader in improving antimicrobial stewardship

China
Shenzhen Children’s Hospital is located in the Guangdong Province in China. Since its launch in 1997, the hospital has become one of the best pediatric medical centers in southern China.
MicroGuide™ will continue to be introduced at hospitals throughout China. This growth will support the government’s antimicrobial stewardship directives.

USA
‘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.’ IOWA
‘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.’ IOWA

Cambodia
MicroGuide™ was introduced into the Angkor Hospital for Children with the support of the Oxford University Medical Research Unit and The Wellcome Trust.
MicroGuide™ is opened and accessed over 500 times each month and its use has led to an increasing amount of enthusiasm at the hospital to get involved in stewardship activities, it’s improving knowledge, the working environment, and patient outcomes.

Malawi

UK
We are therefore confident that clinicians are prescribing antibiotics to patients according to evidence based local protocols MicroGuide™ is now used in Medical organisations, Trusts, Community Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups and Hospitals throughout the world. There are 100,000 mobile App users in the UK alone accessing up to date information published by trusted sources on a daily basis.

Ireland

Gibraltar
The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) delivers Primary, Secondary and Mental Health Care in Gibraltar to 29,000 residents using a Healthcare model closely linked to the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. MicroGuide™ has been successfully used by healthcare professionals on the island since 2016.

Iceland

New Zealand
Bay of Plenty was the first District Health Board to use MicroGuide™ in New Zealand, implementing the solution in 2015. They provide services to a population of 214,000 over an area that spans 9,500 sq km. In 2017, Bay of Plenty’s neighbour on North Island, Waikato District Health Board, implemented MicroGuide™. Waikato serves a population of 390,000 and covers more than 21,000 sq km.
Case Studies and Research Findings
WHAT THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS SAY
“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”
Dr Kieran Hand
FRPharmS,
Consultant Pharmacist for Anti-infectives.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - UK
http://www.uhs.nhs.uk/
k.hand@soton.ac.uk
Hear the fascinating and true story of how Dr. Pasco Hearn took the fight for antimicrobial stewardship to Uganda and Cambodia with MicroGuide.
Dr. Pasco Hearn
MBBS, BSc, MSc, MRCP, FRCPath,
Consultant Medical Microbiologist.
From the world renowned specialist eye hospital at Moorfields, Tanya Serebryanska the Lead Pharmacist tells how important MicroGuide is to their daily work.
“Tanya Serebryanska , Lead Pharmacist, MicroGuide™ at Moorfields.”
Moorfield Eye Hospital London - UK
https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/
tatyana.serebryanska@nhs.net
'Here at VCU, 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
VCU School of Medicine - USA
https://www.vcuhealth.org
michael.stevens@vcuhealth.org
There is a lot to be said about having your own guidelines. Putting your own stamp on them and your own tweaks is a very positive thing.
Making them accessible by MicroGuide™ so everyone can see them is a powerful tool”.
Dr Paul Turner
Director of the Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit at the Angkor Hospital
Associate Professor, University of Oxford.
Angkor Hospital for Children Siem Reap - Cambodia
http://angkorhospital.org/
pault@tropmedres.ac
“Dr. Kieran Hand, Consultant Pharmacist for Anti-infectives, introduces MicroGuide™.”
Dr Kieran Hand
FRPharmS,
Consultant Pharmacist for Anti-infectives.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - UK
http://www.uhs.nhs.uk/
k.hand@soton.ac.uk
MicroGuide™ consists of five main elements:
The Mobile App
Content Management System
The Web Viewer
Decision Support Module
Technical and Customer support
MicroGuide™ was initially developed to enable pharmacists to create, edit and publish antimicrobial guidelines to their clinicians’ mobile devices so they always had the latest guidance at the point of care.
This objective has since been expanded and our aim now is that MicroGuide™ will facilitate improved and more timely communications between Medical Organisations and their clinicians across a whole range of information sources.
Consequently, in 2015, Horizon released a new version of MicroGuide™ that enables a wide range of guidelines and publications to clinicians’ mobile devices.
Clinicians are able to access all guidelines published via the same Mobile App and therefore only ever have to go to one place to access the latest information.
All published guidelines are also available to view via a Medical Organisation’s Intranet (via the use of our live Web Viewer service); therefore content management of guidelines is simplified, made more effective and only ever needs to be maintained in one place.
MicroGuide™ is now used in Trusts, Community Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups and Hospitals throughout the world. There are over 100,000 users globally accessing up to date information published by trusted sources on a daily basis.