HAITooL: An innovative antibiotic stewardship decision-supporting system to improve antibiotic prescription effectiveness

Résumé

HAITooL is a surveillance and decision-support tool for physicians, the Infection and Prevention Control Team, pharmacists, and microbiologists. It integrates patients, microbiology and pharmacy data, from multiple sources, enabling effective monitoring of antibiotic resistance, antibiotic use and provides an antibiotic prescription decision- supporting system by clinicians, strengthening patient safety. HAITooL information system design and implementation, based on Design Science Research Methodology, ensured full participation, in close collaboration of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and healthcare professionals. Leadership commitment, multidisciplinary team and mainly informaticians engagement was crucial to the implementation process. The design, development and implementation process reveals benefits in organizational and behavior change with success.