Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a scourge of every hospital, harming patients, increasing costs and length of stay, and burdening busy healthcare providers. Three main risk factors contribute to HAIs; understanding them is the key to prev...
If a newly-admitted patient contracts an infection, do you know if they caught it at your hospital, or in the community prior to admittance? If a unit has a C. diff outbreak, do you have a way to identify which providers interacted with those patient...
Improving hand-hygiene compliance with mild, effective products and enhanced accountability By Susan Cantrell Big news from The Joint Commission recently provided more motivation for better-performing hand-hygiene (HH) programs. Effective January 1, ...
The World Health Organization established the “My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene” in 2007. These guidelines define key moments when healthcare workers (HCWs) should perform hand hygiene (HH). The 5 Moments are designed to keep patients – and the he...
By Angela King It’s your duty to the startup community — it’s time to vote for Atlanta Startup Awards finalists! It’s that time of the year when we recognize and highlight the work of local founders and startup ecosystem builders. The second ...
You might think it odd that an electronic hand hygiene reminder system would say that hand hygiene performance isn’t the most important metric to measure and try to improve. If it isn’t, then what is? Missed opportunities. Let’s look at an exam...
ATLANTA, GA – September 26, 2018 – Clean Hands – Safe Hands announced today that it has been nominated for the second annual Atlanta Startup Awards, jointly organized by members of the Atlanta Startup Community. The category in which Clean Hand...
To prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), it’s important for clinicians to sanitize their hands. Experts have traditionally focused beyond when and where providers clean their hands; they’ve also set standards for how healthcare workers...
Written by VoyageATL Today we’d like to introduce you to Chris Hermann. Chris, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far. Back in 2008, I was in a dual-degree graduate program, workin...
More and more evidence keeps building, showing that direct observation doesn’t work in terms of measuring hand hygiene performance. A new study was recently published by the American Journal of Infection Control from a hospital in Saudi Arabia. Dir...
