# About HelicsWin.Net

HelicsWin.Net is a software application developed for the manual entry of data of the Healthcare-Associated Infections surveillance Network (HAI-Net).

The current version includes three surveillance modules:

• HAI-Net PPS: point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals (Protocol version 5.0), and

• HAI-Net ICU: surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in European intensive care units (ICUs) (Protocol version 2.0), and

• HAI-Net CDI: surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in the EU (pilot protocol version 2.2).

HelicsWin.Net enables local users, typically in a hospital, to collect surveillance data at the hospital and ward levels; these data are stored internally by HelicsWin.Net, but the data can be exported to other applications in a variety of formats, including formats compatible with Microsoft Access (.mdb) and Microsoft Excel (.csv).

For nominated representatives of the EU Member States only, a TESSy compatible format is provided to facilitate the importation of data to The European Surveillance System (TESSy) database.

HelicsWin.Net v2.2 Online User Guide v20160330
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