Category Archives: Hand Hygiene
Impact of a Voice on Hand Hygiene
When a busy healthcare provider forgets to clean their hands, a human voice does the best job of reminding them to do so. Want evidence? We’ve got it. The single biggest driver of hand hygiene performance in our system is the Real-Time Voice Remind...
C. diff is Becoming More Common…Everywhere
We’re in the last few days of November, which is C. diff Awareness Month, and NPR has come out with a report that more cases of C. diff are arising from the community rather than from hospitals. (Here’s the NPR article.) Clostridium difficile, wh...
The Joint Commission: Will You Get a Hand Slap or a High Five?
Has your hospital been impacted by The Joint Commission’s new 2018 standards for hand hygiene yet? As you probably know, the new standards represent a major change in how your organization is evaluated. With the old standards, you just had to have ...
Why Hand Hygiene is Always “Someone Else’s Problem”
In the fictional town of “Lake Wobegon” from A Prairie Home Companion, “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” All joking aside, of course it’s impossible for “all” (or even “m...
If Hand Hygiene Performance Isn’t the Most Important Metric…What Is?
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...
Even I Had to Be Reminded To Perform Hand Hygiene
After 12 years in a dual degree program while developing the technology that has become the Clean Hands – Safe Hands system, I have finally finished medical school. Something very profound happened during my last day of rotations in the hospital…...
The New C. diff Guidelines’ Impact on Hand Hygiene
Let’s talk about one of the greatest controversies in hand hygiene – C. diff! If you ask 10 hospital staff members what their C. diff policies are, you will often get 14 different answers and a couple of puzzled looks. This is fairly standard, an...
Discover the Process that Cuts HAIs by 75% in 6 Months
There’s no question that hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are a challenge for medical facilities. All major agencies agree that proper hand hygiene is the cornerstone of infection control. But how can you improve your hospital’s hand hygiene? ...
What is the Deal with Gloves and Hand Hygiene?
This is one of the most common questions we get. There’s more confusion about glove usage and hand hygiene than nearly anything else – even among the most senior clinicians! We spoke with a senior-level physician at one of our hospital partners r...
Hand Hygiene By The Numbers: How Many Lives Could You Save?
Hand hygiene is the leading cause of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Period. Every major accreditation and infection control body has a statement that reflects this. If you improve hand hygiene, infections are prevented. Despite this, many p...