LineGuard turns fragmented central-line data into a daily safety worklist your team acts on — closing the gap between knowing the protocol and doing it, every shift.
The failure point isn't knowledge — every unit has the protocol. It's daily execution, spread across EHR review, handoffs, and follow-up, breaking under staffing strain.
Line-necessity, dressing status, CHG documentation, and culture results sit in different corners of the EHR. No one sees the whole picture for every line, every day.
A flag raised on day shift quietly dies at shift change. Documentation goes stale, and the loop never closes.
Manual chart review doesn't scale when infection-prevention and nursing teams are stretched thin. Tasks slip — silently.
Another pop-up isn't the answer. Clinicians already ignore hundreds of alerts a week — the one that matters drowns with the rest.
LineGuard doesn't add a dashboard. It tells the team what to do today — and confirms it got done.
Every active central line, ranked by urgency and care gaps — High, Watch, or Stable — so the team starts each shift knowing exactly where to look first.
Each patient shows the signals behind the flag — line-days, site, maintenance gaps, pending cultures — so clinicians can trust it and act on it.
LineGuard prompts the next action, logs completion, and keeps an audit trail. A flag that's raised gets owned, acted on, and documented.
LineGuard is being shaped by ongoing discovery with infection-prevention nurses, vascular-access teams, and ICU physicians — and built to fit into the hospital, not fight it.
Read-only SMART on FHIR integration. LineGuard reads the chart — it never writes back to the EHR, so there's nothing new for IT to fear.
Built for HIPAA-grade handling from day one: minimum-necessary data access, audit trails on every action, and a clear security posture for hospital review.
Line-day exposure, maintenance-task completion, escalation timing — the pilot is designed around numbers a quality team can take to leadership.
CMS cuts Medicare inpatient payments by 1% for the worst-performing quartile on hospital-acquired conditions — 724 hospitals were penalized in the latest cycle, and CLABSI is a scored measure.
Infection-prevention and nursing teams can't manually review every line, every day. The prevention work is real — it needs automation, not more headcount that doesn't exist.
Standardized FHIR access and modern risk models make it possible to surface care gaps early — without replacing or writing to the EHR.
One ICU or surgical unit. Read-only data access. A defined measurement plan your quality team helps shape. If you lead infection prevention, vascular access, or quality — we'd love to talk.
Columbia MPH with a background in clinical research and health-systems strategy. Rabiya built the first version of LineGuard and leads the clinical discovery work with the infection-prevention nurses, vascular-access teams, and ICU clinicians shaping the product.