Category Archives: Hand Hygiene
Investment is Required to Create Resilient Patient Safety Systems
Patient safety systems must be able to withstand serious threats to patient safety. If such systems whither when confronted with staff shortages, supply chain disruptions, or infectious diseases, they cannot be considered patient safety systems. A sy...
Leapfrog Not Backing Down on Hand Hygiene Requirements
Some hospitals have asked The Leapfrog Group to relax its hand hygiene standards, says Leah Binder, Leapfrog’s president and CEO, according to a January 28, 2022 Becker’s Hospital Review article. That’s not going to happen. Becker’s Hos...
Introducing a Hand Hygiene Initiative? Follow These 3 Steps to Boost Staff Buy-In
No change initiative will be successful without staff buy-in. It doesn’t matter how inspired, impactful, or well-researched the initiative is. A hand hygiene initiative that’s projected to significantly decrease healthcare-associated infections (...
Adaptive Room Modes: Real-Time, Actionable Feedback that Adjusts to Clinical Workflows
Nurses have no patience for hand hygiene systems that interfere with their clinical workload. Given the choice between missing hand hygiene but performing timely, necessary care or diligently performing hand hygiene but missing the opportunity to pro...
The Power of Voice: Why Verbal Reminders So Effectively Improve Hand Hygiene
Most healthcare technologies use alarms to signal a need to take action. But busy healthcare providers, overwhelmed by the ubiquity of alarms in clinical settings, quickly learn to adjust their attention and often ignore the alarms. Alarm fatig...
It’s Time to Tackle 3 Persistent Hand Hygiene Myths
You know that hand hygiene decreases the risk of infection. Your staff knows that as well. And yet, if your facility is like most, your hand hygiene rates remain lower than you’d like. As noted in a 2020 article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, r...
Webinar Featuring Dr. Chris Hermann Now Available on Demand
ATLANTA, GA – December 1, 2020 – 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 “Using Technology to Stop the Spread of COV...
Prioritizing Patient Experience: Using an IoT System to Keep Patients Satisfied
At Clean Hands – Safe Hands, improving the patient experience is front of mind in everything we do. We have talked about patient experience many times, but in case you missed it, here is a free resource outlining three ways to improve patient exper...
Gloves: A Substitute for Hand Hygiene or a Dangerous False Sense of Security?
There is a common and widespread misconception that wearing gloves is an adequate protection from COVID-19. This disturbing trend is everywhere. From patient rooms in hospitals to the produce aisle of the grocery store, in addition to masks, many peo...
New Data Reveals the Hidden Problem in Hospitals Fighting COVID: Hand Hygiene
August 10, 2020 – Surprising new data has revealed an alarming trend in hospitals fighting COVID. Check out the video below from our founder and CEO, Dr. Chris Hermann to learn what this data has revealed about hand hygiene. Data show that cli...