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Creating Teachable Moments: How Wearable Tech Can Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance

Sep 8
3 min

Creating Teachable Moments: How Wearable Tech Can Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance

Designed to capture hand hygiene compliance data and to provide real-time reminders to perform hand hygiene at critical patient care moments

Vitalacy Fall Alert Solution Ready for Beta Testing; Apply to Become a Partner!

Janel Nour-Omid

Jan 26, 2021
4 min

Vitalacy Fall Alert Solution Ready for Beta Testing; Apply to Become a Partner!

Vitalacy's use of AI for fall prevention and unattended bed exits hopes to provide better outcomes than the use of virtual or in-person sitt

Hand Hygiene and Contact Tracing Become Expected Safety Interventions, In All Work and Public Places

Janel Nour-Omid

May 19, 2020
5 min

Hand Hygiene and Contact Tracing Become Expected Safety Interventions, In All Work and Public Places

Keeping employees healthy and safe will be a requirement businesses will not be able to afford to overlook.

What is Needed to Sustain Fall Prevention? Predictive Information from Electronic and Visual Aids

Vitalacy Team

Apr 21, 2020
5 min

What is Needed to Sustain Fall Prevention? Predictive Information from Electronic and Visual Aids

Hospitals have been making progress in fall prevention, but the most recent data still show a significant problem.

Latest Research Adds More Evidence of Benefits of Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring

Janel Nour-Omid

Apr 14, 2020
4 min

Latest Research Adds More Evidence of Benefits of Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring

Electronic hand hygiene monitoring can improve hand hygiene compliance and reduce healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs).

Looking Ahead: How to Better Support Our Care Providers, Both During and After the COVID-19 Crisis

Vitalacy Team

Apr 7, 2020
3 min

Looking Ahead: How to Better Support Our Care Providers, Both During and After the COVID-19 Crisis

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

Why Gentle Reminders About Hand Hygiene Prevent Infections and Save Lives

Vitalacy Team

Mar 31, 2020
4 min

Why Gentle Reminders About Hand Hygiene Prevent Infections and Save Lives

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

Five Characteristics of Effective Hand Hygiene Monitoring Technology

Vitalacy Team

Mar 17, 2020
4 min

Five Characteristics of Effective Hand Hygiene Monitoring Technology

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

Monitoring for Nurse Fatigue Can Start Important Conversations About Wellbeing

Vitalacy Team

Feb 18, 2020
3 min

Monitoring for Nurse Fatigue Can Start Important Conversations About Wellbeing

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

Do Hospitals Make or Lose Money By Improving Patient Safety?

Vitalacy Team

Jan 28, 2020
4 min

Do 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

Why Effective Hand Hygiene Requires Soap and Water, As Well As Hand Sanitizer

Vitalacy Team

Jan 7, 2020
4 min

Why Effective Hand Hygiene Requires Soap and Water, As Well As Hand Sanitizer

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

How Your Nursing Program Can Gather Evidence for Magnet Recognition

Vitalacy Team

Nov 19, 2019
4 min

How Your Nursing Program Can Gather Evidence for Magnet Recognition

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

How Dispenser Sensors Provide Deep Insights Into How to Improve Patient Safety

Janel Nour-Omid

Nov 13, 2019
3 min

How Dispenser Sensors Provide Deep Insights Into How to Improve Patient Safety

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

Survey: Health Care Workers Want Leaders to Invest More in Patient Safety

Vitalacy Team

Nov 5, 2019
4 min

Survey: Health Care Workers Want Leaders to Invest More in Patient Safety

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

The Clinician’s Conundrum: Face Time vs. Computer Time. Has Technology Gone Too Far?

Vitalacy Team

Oct 15, 2019
4 min

The 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.

Leapfrog Group Adds Electronic Compliance Monitoring to Hand Hygiene Practice Standards

Janel Nour-Omid

Oct 8, 2019
4 min

Leapfrog 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.

It's 4 a.m. - Do You Know Where Your Nurses Are? Workflow Technology Helps Achieve High Reliability

Vitalacy Team

Oct 1, 2019
4 min

It's 4 a.m. - Do You Know Where Your Nurses Are? Workflow Technology Helps Achieve High Reliability

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

What Is Your Organization’s Approach to Patient Experience?

Vitalacy Team

Sep 24, 2019
3 min

What Is Your Organization’s Approach to Patient Experience?

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

Preventing Fatal Blood Transfusions: Why Frequent Patient Monitoring Saves Lives

Vitalacy Team

Aug 27, 2019
3 min

Preventing Fatal Blood Transfusions: Why Frequent Patient Monitoring Saves Lives

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

How to Improve the Accuracy of Your Hand Hygiene Compliance Data

Vitalacy Team

Aug 21, 2019
4 min

How to Improve the Accuracy of Your Hand Hygiene Compliance Data

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

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