1800. Clinical Impact of Real-Time Predictive Model to Facilitate Antibiotic Prescribing in Gram-Negative Bacteremia

Collaborative Antimicrobial Stewardship: Working with Information Technology

Information technology (IT) is vitally important to making antimicrobial stewardship a scalable endeavor in modern health care systems. Without IT, many antimicrobial interventions in patient care would be missed. Clinical decision support systems and smartphone apps, either stand-alone or integrated into electronic health records, can all be effective tools to help augment the work of antimicrobial stewardship programs and support the management of infectious diseases in any health care setting.