10 hours ago3 minLooking Ahead: How to Better Support Our Care Providers, Both During and After the COVID-19 CrisisThe COVID-19 pandemic has certainly increased awareness of the importance of hand washing, both among health care workers and the public.
Mar 314 minWhy Gentle Reminders About Hand Hygiene Prevent Infections and Save LivesTo remind care providers of hand hygiene compliance at the point of care, Vitalacy devised a private, tactile reminder – a brief vibration.
Mar 174 minFive Characteristics of Effective Hand Hygiene Monitoring TechnologyVitalacy has developed the five characteristics of effective hand hygiene monitoring technology to increase hand hygiene compliance.
Mar 104 minBack to Basics, Keeping Care Providers Safe in Uncertain TimesVerifying and reinforcing hand hygiene compliance is a vital component of the response to infectious disease like coronavirus.
Mar 33 minAre Your Care Providers Washing Their Hands Long Enough to Prevent Bacterials and Viral Infections?Vitalacy’s electronic hand hygiene monitoring system is the only one on the market that can track hand wash duration, as well as compliance.
Feb 254 minThree Ways Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring Makes Antibiotic Stewardship More EffectiveAccording to CDC guidelines, C. diff infections are best prevented by hand hygiene using soap and water rather than hand sanitizers.
Feb 183 minMonitoring for Nurse Fatigue Can Start Important Conversations About WellbeingHospital leaders can make patient care more rewarding and satisfying for nurses and more effective for patients.
Feb 44 minThree Ways to Build Effective Patient-Provider Relationships at the Point of CareTo improve patient-provider relationships, we need to help our clinicians find more time. Vitalacy offers three ways to help.
Jan 284 minDo Hospitals Make or Lose Money By Improving Patient Safety?While hospitals weigh how much money and effort should be devoted to patient safety, more evidence on the cost of harm continues to be found
Jan 214 minThree Reasons Why Patient Safety Is Difficult to ImproveHospital tend to place blame for adverse events on frontline workers closest to the problem, discouraging them from reporting mistakes.
Jan 143 minWhy Nurse Wellbeing and Engagement Leads to Better Quality, Safety and SatisfactionHospital leaders have found a correlation between nurse engagement and satisfaction like tracking your hand washing rates on an app.
Jan 74 minWhy Effective Hand Hygiene Requires Soap and Water, As Well As Hand SanitizerComplying with hand hygiene protocols incorporating both soap and water and hand rubs is the best way to prevent hospital-acquired infection
Nov 19, 20194 minHow Your Nursing Program Can Gather Evidence for Magnet RecognitionTo achieve and maintain Magnet status, hospitals must provide evidence of nursing excellence and innovation in the pursuit of quality/safety
Nov 13, 20193 minHow Dispenser Sensors Provide Deep Insights Into How to Improve Patient SafetyData as robust, descriptive and credible as those from Vitalacy cannot be gained by direct observation, only by electronic monitoring.
Nov 5, 20194 minSurvey: Health Care Workers Want Leaders to Invest More in Patient SafetyA Joint Commission survey found inadequate staffing was cited as the biggest barrier to patient safety. Improving workflow can help.
Oct 29, 20194 minMovement Mapping in Hospitals: From Blue Yarn to BluetoothDigital location and movement mapping gains understanding of caregivers’ workflow and how it can be adjusted to improve patient safety.
Oct 22, 20193 minWhat Do Health Care and Sports Have in Common? Workflow Improvement WinsHealth care and sports have more in common than you might think, especially in regard to performance and workflow improvement.
Oct 15, 20194 minThe Clinician’s Conundrum: Face Time vs. Computer Time. Has Technology Gone Too Far?Physicians spend more time on “desktop medicine,” such as typing notes into the electronic health record (EHR) than on office visits.
Oct 8, 20194 minLeapfrog Group Adds Electronic Compliance Monitoring to Hand Hygiene Practice Standards Leapfrog Group added electronic monitoring to its hand hygiene practice standards and plans to score and publicly report by 2020.
Oct 1, 20194 minIt's 4 a.m. - Do You Know Where Your Nurses Are? Workflow Technology Helps Achieve High ReliabilityAutomated workflow monitoring technology can improve the job satisfaction of caregivers and reduce burnout and turnover.
