The Joint Commission Perspectives newsletter just announced a major overhaul to their hand hygiene standards. If you haven’t seen it, you need to read it now. The Joint Commission frequently gets a bad rap, but they got this one right, and in doing...
Technology touted as ‘coaching’ for busy clinical staff members December 6, 2017 Neal Lorenzi The latest hand-hygiene compliance monitoring (HHCM) systems serve as coaching tools that remind health care workers of critical hand-washing events. Th...
You can’t just install technology into a complex organization and expect it to significantly change people’s behavior. In order to enable sustainable change, the technology needs to be paired with a process that drives a culture of positive, cont...
Recently, I was working remotely from a coffee shop. I had my work laptop, notepad and hot beverage at hand and was cranking away. Then I noticed a young family sitting nearby. I couldn’t help but notice, because their four-year-old daughter was ch...
It takes more than just technology to increase hand hygiene performance and reduce HAIs. The technology needs to be paired with a process that leads to culture change and sustainable results. We start creating a positive culture in phase 3, which inc...
Last evening, Dr. Chris Hermann and 39 other honorees were celebrated at the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2017 “40 Under 40” awards event at The Foundry at Puritan Mill in Atlanta. With over 560 people nominated, only 7% of nominees...
A busy hospital can inadvertently foster inefficiencies as staff move around the facility. While hand hygiene technology is designed to improve hand hygiene performance and patient safety, it can do so much more. The technology can also bring to ligh...
Atlanta — November 1, 2017 – Clean Hands – Safe Hands announced today that its founder and CEO, Dr. Chris Hermann, has been named a member of the 2017 “40 Under 40” class. The “40 Under 40” awards, held by the Atlanta Business Chronicle...
Changing healthcare is impossibly hard but, now more than ever, is an absolute imperative. In order to keep pace with the rapid changes that are occurring, hospitals must be able to leverage data to impact patient care. In order to do this successful...
Millennials are the future of healthcare. Now, more than ever, they make up the majority of the otherwise shrinking workforce, and are now responsible for most patient care. If hospitals are going to succeed in the competitive future of healthcare, t...
