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.

Hospital leaders can make patient care more rewarding and satisfying for nurses and more effective for patients.

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

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

To achieve and maintain Magnet status, hospitals must provide evidence of nursing excellence and innovation in the pursuit of quality/safety

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

A Joint Commission survey found inadequate staffing was cited as the biggest barrier to patient safety. Improving workflow can help.

Physicians spend more time on “desktop medicine,” such as typing notes into the electronic health record (EHR) than on office visits.

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.

Hospitals must prevent "never events", but most don’t have the technology to track frequency or quality of patient monitoring.

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

Safety cultures should have five elements: informed culture, reporting culture, learning culture, just culture and flexible culture.

Workflow monitoring helps create highly reliable patient safety systems that support providers in performing patient care responsibilities.

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