The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly increased awareness of the importance of hand washing, both among health care workers and the public.

To remind care providers of hand hygiene compliance at the point of care, Vitalacy devised a private, tactile reminder – a brief vibration.

Vitalacy has developed the five characteristics of effective hand hygiene monitoring technology to increase hand hygiene compliance.

Verifying and reinforcing hand hygiene compliance is a vital component of the response to infectious disease like coronavirus.

Vitalacy’s electronic hand hygiene monitoring system is the only one on the market that can track hand wash duration, as well as compliance.

According to CDC guidelines, C. diff infections are best prevented by hand hygiene using soap and water rather than hand sanitizers.

Complying with hand hygiene protocols incorporating both soap and water and hand rubs is the best way to prevent hospital-acquired infection

Data as robust, descriptive and credible as those from Vitalacy cannot be gained by direct observation, only by electronic monitoring.

Digital location and movement mapping gains understanding of caregivers’ workflow and how it can be adjusted to improve patient safety.

Leapfrog Group added electronic monitoring to its hand hygiene practice standards and plans to score and publicly report by 2020.

Automated workflow monitoring technology can improve the job satisfaction of caregivers and reduce burnout and turnover.

The best experience for a patient is to receive effective treatment without harm, and then to go home feeling better.

By increasing the number of observations, hospitals can achieve a truer measure of compliance and quantitatively reduce HAIs.

Preventable costs stemming from HAIs and HACs unfortunately occur regularly, generating non-reimbursable expenses covered by the hospital.

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