Category Archives: Blog
Key To A Successful Technology Implementation: Situational Leadership®
In order for a technology implementation to be successful in healthcare, it must account for socio-adaptive behavior. Too often, high-tech manufacturers only consider the quantitative aspects of problem solving. But industry executives should re...
Becker’s Hospital Review: The Joint Commission’s new hand hygiene standards: What they mean to you
Written by Dr. Chris Hermann, Founder and CEO, Clean Hands – Safe Hands March 07, 2018 – The Joint Commission’s mission is to “improve healthcare for the public…by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providin...
What Are You Doing for Patient Safety Awareness Week (Next Week)?
Patient Safety Awareness Week starts this Sunday, March 11. What’s your hospital planning to do to get involved? If you don’t know, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation offer a wealth of ideas on the...
The Challenges of Innovation in Improving Hand Hygiene Performance
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis is frequently referenced as the “Father of Hand Hygiene.” In 1846, he was faced with a clinic that had maternal mortality rates 250% higher than a similar clinic. Patients resisted being admitted to the clinic with higher mor...
High Risk Patient Intervention (Phase 6 of our Hand Hygiene Acceleration Pathway)
As we’ve noted before, simply installing technology into a complex healthcare organization and walking away does not translate into success. The best technology implementations address the human factor implicit in behavior change by smoothly guidin...
Worst Flu Season In Almost a Decade Means…Wash Your Hands!
By any measure, this year’s flu season is a bad one. It’s on track to put over 700,000 Americans in the hospital and cause over 55,000 deaths, per the CDC. The percentage of people seeing their doctor for influenza-like illnesses hit 7.7%, the hi...
How Can You Increase Hand Hygiene Performance?
A few weeks ago, we published The Top 5 Real (and Surprising) Reasons Clinicians Don’t Clean Their Hands. With The Joint Commission’s new, stringent hand hygiene standards, this is more critical than it’s ever been. Today, we’d like to outlin...
Healthcare Business Today: The Joint Commission’s New Hand Hygiene Standards Could Hit You Where It Hurts
February 3, 2018, by Dr. Chris Hermann, Founder and CEO, Clean Hands – Safe Hands In case you missed it, the Joint Commission recently made a drastic change to its hand hygiene standards. Previously, hospitals were simply required to impl...
5% Of Your Clinicians Are Creating Up To 40% Of Your Hand Hygiene Risk
Did you know that 5% of your clinicians are causing between 25% and 40% of your hand hygiene problem? We analyzed over 60 million hand hygiene data points from hospitals all over the country. Starting out, the bottom 5% of clinicians make up 25% of a...
4 Ways to Know Your Hospital is Ready for The Joint Commission’s New Hand Hygiene Standards
. Will your hospital be ready the next time a Joint Commission surveyor pays a visit? Here are four ways to know you’re prepared to meet the new standards. Hand hygiene performance rates among all clinician groups and all shifts are consistently hi...