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How Technology Can Improve HCAHPS Scores
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, also known as HCAHPS, is the first national, standardized survey of patient satisfaction in healthcare. HCAHPS is publicly reported which means patients can research hospitals and ...
3 Healthcare Trends That May Affect Your Bottom Line in 2020
Which trends will shape healthcare in 2020 and beyond? In the 2010s, the Affordable Care Act, telemedicine and an increasing emphasis on population-centered care shifted the way healthcare organizations provide services. To survive and provide top-no...
Does Hand Hygiene Performance Drop During the Holidays?
Proper hand hygiene is widely acknowledged as the best way to prevent hospital acquired infections (HAIs) (more on that here), yet so many facilities struggle with it. One challenge that almost all facilities have to deal with (whether they rea...
Organization Efficiencies with an IoT System
Using IoT to Measure Patient Interactions Many facilities have wondered about disparities between shifts. Are patients visited at the same rate at all hours of the day? Are certain days busier than others? This information has previously been unavail...
Technology-Assisted Observation Can Improve Hand Hygiene
Healthcare providers know that hand hygiene is key to reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). And yet, despite that knowledge and countless hours of staff education – not to mention investments in cute posters and handwashing systems – ...
4 Ways Hospitals Can Prevent Patient Falls
Patient falls are expensive, time-consuming and injurious. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, approximately 700,000 to 1 million hospitalized patients — about 3% of all hospitalized Americans — fall each year. More than ...
Preventing Ventilator-Associated Events
The existence of ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP, has long been a topic of controversial discussion. Diagnosing VAP is difficult because the radiologic and clinical signs can be associated with a variety of respiratory infections as well as o...
Clean Hands-Safe Hands Receives Frost & Sullivan 2019 Customer Service Leadership Award for Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring
ATLANTA — (September 9, 2019) –Clean Hands-Safe Hands (CHSH), announced today that the company has been recognized with Frost & Sullivan’s 2019 Customer Service Leadership Award for hand hygiene compliance monitoring. Based on research ...
FierceHealthcare: 8 Ways Technology Plays a Vital Role in Value-Based Healthcare
The U.S. healthcare system’s transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments has been a massive change for nearly all healthcare organizations. This has led many hospitals to shut their doors and others to seek partnerships with larger heal...
Clean Hands – Safe Hands Named to Atlanta Inno’s “2019 Coolest Companies” List
ATLANTA – August 2, 2019 – Atlanta Inno announced today that Clean Hands – Safe Hands has been named to its “2019 Coolest Companies” list. The publication described the list this way: “For our Coolest Companies feature, we examined the co...