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Migrating from RESPOND! employee health software

carefoundryESC Team

carefoundryESC migrates data from RESPOND! (ICPA's legacy hospital employee health system, later sold as BD Protect Healthcare Worker Safety) included at every size. If your facility still runs a RESPOND! or BD Protect install, here is what happened to the product, what that means for your data, and how the migration works.

What RESPOND! was

RESPOND! was employee health software for hospitals built by Infection Control & Prevention Analysts, Inc. (ICPA) of Austin, Texas, a company that described itself as "staffed by physicians and nurses who have been trained at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." The product line dated to 1989, and ICPA reported it licensed to over 1,100 healthcare organizations. Its modules covered tests and exams, vaccines, exposures (including the sharps injury log), work-related injuries and illnesses, absenteeism, and in-service education, with OSHA 300 reporting, essentially the same ground a modern employee health platform covers. It ran as on-premise Windows client/server software, one server install per network.

What happened to it

BD (Becton Dickinson) acquired ICPA's software business in August 2009 and relaunched the product family in March 2010 as BD Protect™, with the employee health system becoming "BD Protect™ Healthcare Worker Safety." According to a 2012 press release by Axion Health (then a competing vendor), RESPOND! customers were told in 2011 that support was ending, with no successor product to follow. Today ICPA's old website redirects to a BD microbiology page, and BD's current portfolio contains no employee health product. There is no BD successor system for RESPOND! or BD Protect Healthcare Worker Safety customers to upgrade into.

For facilities still running it, that means an unsupported, on-premise Windows system holding decades of employee health history, records subject to OSHA’s duration-of-employment-plus-30-years medical record retention rule (29 CFR 1910.1020) among them, with no vendor behind it.

How the migration to carefoundryESC works

  • Included on every plan: extraction and conversion of your RESPOND! / BD Protect data is included, not an add-on service.
  • What moves: employees, immunizations and titers, tests and exams, exposures and sharps injuries, work-related injuries and illnesses, credentials, and documents.
  • How it runs: a dry-run first, then the live migration, typically complete within 14 days. An import can be undone in full until anyone records anything against an imported employee. Your HR roster imports from a CSV export of any HRIS from day one.
  • Where you land: a cloud platform with published pricing (three published plans by headcount, $5,000–$25,000/year, plus Enterprise+, with unlimited users), OSHA 300/300A/301 filings, an employee self-service portal, e-signature documents, and 50+ built-in reports. Live within 30 days of kickoff, or we credit one month's fee.

You have more than one option

In fairness: carefoundryESC is not the only vendor that will take RESPOND! data. MediTrax (Occupational Health Systems, Inc.) maintains a dedicated welcome page for RESPOND! and BD-Protect users and includes extraction and conversion of RESPOND! data tables in its one-time license fee, under a traditional licensed-software model rather than a cloud subscription. See our carefoundryESC vs. MediTrax comparison for how the two approaches differ. What matters most is that you get decades of data off a system with no vendor behind it before a hardware failure makes the decision for you.

Switching is the easy part

Data migration is included on every plan: employees, incidents, immunizations, exams, credentials, and documents, typically within 14 days. An import can be undone in full until anyone records anything against an imported employee. Live within 30 days of kickoff, or we credit one month's fee.

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