Surveillance is known to consume 50% of an Infection Control Professional’s time. At present the majority of surveillance is carried out in a labour intensive manual paper system. Therefore the capacity and range of surveillance activities is hampered by the current data collection methods. The introduction of new technologies should facilitate more accurate, timely and time efficient data collection. We aim to explore and identify other potential applications for new technologies. The introduction of the “iPad” into the Infection Control Professional’s toolkit has provided has facilitated data entry for Hand Hygiene and provided significant time efficiencies for the collection and submission of data. We examined the feasibility of other potential applications in education, observational studies and surveillance. Considerable gains in time efficiencies for the data collection of Hand Hygiene Australia has been enabled by web technology. Time efficiencies have also been proven in other infection control activities by applying the new technologies and challenging our current processes.