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Rising Star Winner: Reducing healthcare-acquired infections is Chris Hermann’s passion
We are pleased to announce that Clean Hands – Safe Hands’ Founder and CEO, Dr. Chris Hermann, was named the winner of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Healthcare Heroes” award, “Rising Star” category, on May...
Decrease Patient Falls by Measuring Nurse Rounding
Patient falls are a serious problem, affecting between 700,000 and 1 million patients per year in American hospitals.[1] One of the primary reasons patients fall out of bed is that they haven’t been visited by a nurse in a while and they attempt to...
Webinar Featuring Dr. Chris Hermann Available On Demand
ATLANTA, GA – May 15, 2018 – Clean Hands–Safe Hands announced today that its Founder and CEO, Chris Hermann, PhD, MD, appeared in a webinar that is now available on demand. The webinar, entitled “Technology and Culture: Critical Elements of a...
Reduce Shift Fatigue by Measuring Patient Interactions
Do you know how often the clinicians in your hospital visit the patients under their care? Does the frequency of their visits change throughout their shift? Until recently, it has been impossible to know when specific clinicians were visiting a parti...
Improve Patient Satisfaction by Measuring Clinical Visits
Do you know how often the clinicians in your hospital visit the patients under their care? Do individual nurses visit patients about the same number of times per shift? Does the day of the week matter? Or time of day? Until recently, it has been impo...
Making the Invisible Visible: Clinical Intervention Data
Healthcare organizations are struggling. The transition to value-based care is a financial challenge that has negatively impacted profits, and smaller hospitals are being acquired. Nurse/physician shortages and burnout are making it increasingly diff...
Dr. Chris Hermann Recognized as a “Healthcare Hero” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle
ATLANTA, GA – April 22, 2018 – Clean Hands–Safe Hands announced today that its Founder and CEO, Dr. Chris Hermann, was named to the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Healthcare Heroes” list. The Healthcare Heroes Awards recognizes superstars ...
Healthcare Innovation: How One Georgia Health System Has Leveraged IT to Improve Hand Hygiene
The Floyd Health integrated system in Rome, Georgia, has leveraged health IT to improve hand hygiene and reduce healthcare-associated infections MARK HAGLAND APRIL 1, 2019 On a conceptual level, it’s the simplest thing in the world: in order to re...
Clean Hands – Safe Hands Featured in Premier® Advisor Live® Webinar for World Hand Hygiene Day
ATLANTA, GA – April 17, 2018 – Clean Hands – Safe Hands (CHSH) announced today that its Founder and CEO, Dr. Chris Hermann, will be featured in an Advisor Live® webinar hosted by Premier® in honor of World Hand Hygiene Day. The webinar, title...
InfectionControl.tips: The Power of Data to Improve Hand Hygiene and Reduce HAIs
Abstract While hand hygiene is widely considered to be the most important factor in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), hand hygiene compliance rates in hospitals still average around 40 percent. Improving hand hygiene has been a chal...