AICE is designed for professionals who are dedicated to infection prevention and quality improvement in acute care, long-term care and specialty facilities. AICE helps ICPs and quality control professionals protect patients. Electronically transfer data from your surgical, micro, and ADT systems to save time. Create hundreds of lists, tables, rates, and graphs with precision and ease. Export reports to presentations or data to NHSN. Produce statistical control charts to identify processes or outcomes that require intervention.

AICE Testimonials

Open Letter Posted on a Public Forum by an AICE User:

"I have used AICE® infection surveillance software from ICPA, Inc., since 1994. ICPs and physicians designed this software, and the company is most responsive to our feedback about what we would like to make our reports/AICE use more efficient. They continually make improvements and send them electronically for me to easily download. The charts, data display, rates, etc. are straightforward, crisp and easy for an audience to read. The surgeries I follow (CABG, hips and knees, etc.) are automatically downloaded from my O.R. database to my AICE database, so data input is minimal.

I'm delighted to use AICE for calculating rates for SSIs, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and central line-associated bloodstream infections. AICE automatically compares our rates to NNIS/NHSN rates.

I would be lost without this program. It is excellent and fulfills my needs and more. I also have the QTrendz® module, which automatically creates control charts from the infection rates, or any data one inputs. We used QTrendz to verify an outbreak of C. diff last winter. And, I can use it for falls, medications errors, and so on.

I also manage Employee Health, and we use Respond®, ICPA's program for employee health, which is equally as wonderful as AICE. These programs are built and updated by folks in our field, and it doesn't get any better than this!
I highly recommend you take a peek at AICE and/or Respond prior to making a decision. I'm sure there are other programs that are good, I just haven't observed any that give me as good results. Technical service is excellent.....I have used it often and every time have received the assistance I've needed in a timely, friendly manner.

Hope this helps. Go to www.icpa.net for info. Good Luck."

- Nancy Childs, RN, BSN, CIC
Holzer Medical Center
Gallipolis, OH
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“I have used AICE Millennium (and prior AICE versions) for over 16 years.
AICE provides the rate-based, risk-stratified information I need to manage my infection control data and prevent HAIs. I support an urban, acute care unit with 340 beds.

AICE is developed by ICPA, which continually updates the software with new functions that include recommendations from APIC, JCAHO, CMS and others.

Other ICPs have asked me about relying on data mining to identify my infections versus targeted surveillance of at-risk populations. The problem with "data mining" alone is that it identifies isolates; it does not make epidemiological evaluation to determine if actual infection is present. Data mining companies don't make this clear when they are pushing their products to CFOs and others as a cost savings. I've even heard some less experienced ICPs whose facilities have data mining software or services make statements that indicate they do not fully understand the importance of identifying infections based on clinical definitions, and data validity.”

- Jeanette P. Daniel, RN, CIC
Henrico Doctors Hospital - Forest Campus
Richmond, VA
Named by HealthGrades in "America's 50 Best Hospitals"
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“We use AICE Basic Download for surgery. I am able to download all surgery cases to AICE, so this saves time entering all the information. Then the total number and information is there for mandatory surgical reporting and surgeon specific rates.”

- Jeanine Schwab, RN, BSN, CIC
Swedish American Health System
Rockford, IL
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“AICE Basic Download has saved us hours of data entry each month. Instead of spending hours at the computer each day entering all surgical procedures that we focus on, I just make a few key strokes and there they are. It’s like magic! The best money spent is money spent to save time and accuracy.”

- Charlotte Shelton, BS, MT, CIC
Midland Memorial Hospital
Midland, TX

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“It used to take me a full day to run monthly reports, but using AICE I can get them printed and mailed in two hours. One of the best reports is doing yearly surgeon specific reports. They get their individual rates compared with their peers. This specific feedback has resulted in a 30% decrease of rates.”

- Larry Krebsbach, REHS, CIC
Bryan LGH Medical Center
Lincoln NE
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“The Medical Executive Committee and administration are very grateful for the reports given them. I could not do my job without AICE and Respond. AICE trends help to prevent infections and development of process interventions. We use it to pull reports for our health department, state and county.”

- Jeanette Smyth, RN, BSN, CIC
Ogden Regional Medical Center
Ogden, UT
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“There is currently no better way to download OR data and obtain risk stratification for NNIS comparison. We save time associated with manually entering OR data. The technical support is exceptional. The response is in “real time” and everyone demonstrates patience, compassion and persistence.”

- Deborah Fry, MT (ASCP)
Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network
Allentown, PA

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AICE® software products are in use by more than 1,300 healthcare facilities worldwide, providing Infection Control Professionals with easy yet powerful epidemiologic tools.

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