Software for hospitals
Know how your injury rates compare with hospitals like yours.
The Hospital Injury Prevention System tracks five types of worker injury, compares your rates with anonymous peer hospitals, and shows where prevention pays off first. Identifiable records never leave your hospital.
Healthcare workers get hurt on the job more than anyone else in private industry.
Three steps, every month.
Record
Staff record incidents in HIPS, by form, mobile app or voice, or you upload an export from your current system. Map your local terms to the standard once.
Approve
At month end HIPS strips identifiers and shows a named manager exactly what will be sent. Nothing leaves until it is approved and signed.
Compare
See your rates against peers by bed size, region or facility type, then drill into units, jobs, causes and shifts to decide where to act first.
Common definitions, so every comparison is like for like.
The modules follow the data standard of the 112-facility national surveillance network published by CDC in 2015 (MMWR 64(15)). HIPS rebuilds that method with modern software.
Patient handling and movement
Activity (repositioning, transfers), whether lift equipment was used, contributing factors, body part, injury type, severity, unit, job and shift. Answers: which units need lift equipment first?
Slips, trips and falls
Fall type, hazard, footwear and indoor or outdoor location, so facilities teams know where to fix the floor, the lighting or the weather plan.
Workplace violence
Assault type (verbal, physical, property), patient factors, unit, time of day, hours on duty, severity and treatment. Supports the trend analysis The Joint Commission expects.
Sharps and needlesticks
Device type, safety feature and whether it was activated, stage of use, and whether the injured worker was the original user. Helps maintain the OSHA sharps log.
Blood and body-fluid exposures
Route, agent, protective equipment worn, duration and amount, so exposure control plans are built on real patterns.
Benchmarking you can trust
Rate = injuries ÷ (full-time staff × months) × 10,000. Peer groups need at least five hospitals and no hospital is ever named. Each row shows your rate against the peer median and 25th–75th percentile.
Designed so identifiable data never leaves your network.
The incident application and its database run inside the hospital, self-hosted on your server or HIPS-hosted under a Business Associate Agreement. Each month, only coded, de-identified counts that a manager has approved travel to HIPS Central over outbound HTTPS. No inbound ports, no names, no narratives, no worker IDs.
Roles cover reporters, approvers, facility and system administrators (up to five per facility) and report-only users, and every approval is logged.
| Field | What HIPS Central receives |
|---|---|
| Narratives | Never sent |
| Worker ID | Never sent — start date becomes a tenure range |
| Event date and time | Year and month only; time becomes a shift block |
| Worker age | An age range |
| Event ID | A one-way code, so corrections update the same record |
| Coded fields (injury type, unit, job, cause, severity) | Sent |
From monthly trends to OSHA 300A prep.
- Monthly and yearly trends for the hospital and for each unit.
- Breakdowns by unit, job, activity, cause and severity.
- Before-and-after views to measure an intervention, such as new lift equipment on a floor.
- OSHA 300A summary preparation.
- Data completeness by field, so you know what to fix in reporting.
From a shelved national network to software you can run.
From 2012 to 2014, 112 facilities voluntarily shared standardized injury data in a national surveillance network published by CDC. The network was later shelved. HIPS rebuilds its standard and method with modern software, voice reporting and a mobile app, and keeps identifiable data inside each hospital.
HIPS is built by the technology executive behind Orient Innovations, working with the physician-researcher who designed the original approach.
HIPS is an independent product. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by CDC, NIOSH or The Joint Commission.
Start with your own numbers, at no cost.
Three hospitals can join the founding pilot free: setup and term mapping, all five modules, monthly reports and a pilot review. After the pilot, pricing is an annual subscription by bed size, with health-system discounts.
