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What Challenges Lie Ahead for Infection Preventionists? Experts Provide Their Views

Nov 3
3 min

What Challenges Lie Ahead for Infection Preventionists? Experts Provide Their Views

With the nation’s hospitals bracing for a combination of COVID and flu cases during 2022 and 2023, the road ahead doesn’t look easier.

Does Poor Hand Hygiene Compliance Contribute to Health Disparities Among Hospitalized Patients?

Vitalacy Team

Oct 11
5 min

Does Poor Hand Hygiene Compliance Contribute to Health Disparities Among Hospitalized Patients?

Once patients are hospitalized due to these racial inequalities, does poor hand hygiene contribute to further health disparities?

WHO Report Reveals IPC Programs Emphasizing Hand Hygiene Can Reduce HAIs by 70%

Vitalacy Team

Jun 29
5 min

WHO Report Reveals IPC Programs Emphasizing Hand Hygiene Can Reduce HAIs by 70%

World Health Organization shows that good hand hygiene and other cost-effective infection prevention and control (IPC) practices can prevent

Did COVID Improve America's Hand Hygiene?

Haley Dukelow

Mar 14
4 min

Did COVID Improve America's Hand Hygiene?

COVID infections are down across the nation, and masks are becoming optional in various settings across the United States.

Making A Financial Case for Automated Hand Hygiene Compliance. Part 3: Cost of Penalties and Burnout

Janel Nour-Omid

Feb 15
4 min

Making A Financial Case for Automated Hand Hygiene Compliance. Part 3: Cost of Penalties and Burnout

By Janel Nour-Omid, Vitalacy CEO and Cofounder The first two parts of this series about how to make a financial case for automated, or elect

Healthcare-Acquired COVID Infections Signal A Need for IPC Culture in Hospitals

Janel Nour-Omid

Feb 1
6 min

Healthcare-Acquired COVID Infections Signal A Need for IPC Culture in Hospitals

Protecting patients and workers inside of a hospital from the spread of infectious pathogens requires testing, personal protective equipment

Making A Financial Case for Automated Hand Hygiene Compliance. Part 2: Cost of Direct Observation

Janel Nour-Omid

Aug 17, 2021
5 min

Making A Financial Case for Automated Hand Hygiene Compliance. Part 2: Cost of Direct Observation

Why the money spent on direct observation often leads to misleading compliance data.

Making the Financial Case for Automated Hand Hygiene Compliance. Part 1: The Costs of HAIs

Janel Nour-Omid

Jul 26, 2021
4 min

Making the Financial Case for Automated Hand Hygiene Compliance. Part 1: The Costs of HAIs

By Janel Nour-Omid, CEO and Cofounder How do you make a financial case for investing in an automated hand hygiene compliance system during a

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).

Back to Basics, Keeping Care Providers Safe in Uncertain Times

Janel Nour-Omid

Mar 10, 2020
4 min

Back to Basics, Keeping Care Providers Safe in Uncertain Times

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

Are Your Care Providers Washing Their Hands Long Enough to Prevent Bacterials and Viral Infections?

Vitalacy Team

Mar 3, 2020
3 min

Are 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.

Prevention and Control of HAIs During Flu Season

Vitalacy Team

May 2, 2019
4 min

Prevention and Control of HAIs During Flu Season

Healthcare-associated influenza can pose a big problem for healthcare providers during flu season. Here are the best infection control pract

The Joint Commission’s New Hand Hygiene Standards and What You Need to Know to Stay Compliant

Vitalacy Team

Apr 23, 2019
4 min

The Joint Commission’s New Hand Hygiene Standards and What You Need to Know to Stay Compliant

As of January 1, 2018, if a Joint Commission surveyor sees just one clinician fail to clean his or her hands while in the process of direct

What is Clostridium difficile and Why its New Guidelines Affect Hand Hygiene

Vitalacy Team

Apr 19, 2019
4 min

What is Clostridium difficile and Why its New Guidelines Affect Hand Hygiene

C. diff, the common shorthand for the pathogenic bacterium Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile), is not a bug you want

How Vitalacy Uses Artificial Intelligence to Promote Patient Safety

Vitalacy Team

Mar 19, 2018
4 min

How Vitalacy Uses Artificial Intelligence to Promote Patient Safety

My sordid past with healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) began years ago when my cousin caught an HAI in a hospital emergency room. He ha

Why Do Healthcare-Associated Infections Persist?

Vitalacy Team

Feb 22, 2018
4 min

Why Do Healthcare-Associated Infections Persist?

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are the most common complication people develop during their time in a hospital. In the developed wo

What Does the New Joint Commission Mandate Mean for Hospital Hygiene?

Vitalacy Team

Feb 21, 2018
4 min

What Does the New Joint Commission Mandate Mean for Hospital Hygiene?

For more than a decade, the Joint Commission has stressed good hand hygiene as a condition of accreditation at its 21,000 associated healthc

Healthcare Lawsuits And Infection Control: An Expensive Collision

Vitalacy Team

Mar 31, 2017
4 min

Healthcare Lawsuits And Infection Control: An Expensive Collision

Read about 6 serious healthcare lawsuits involving infection control failures in U.S. hospitals: It won’t come as any surprise to infection

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