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Hand Hygiene Technology Can Actually Make Hospital Staff More Efficient – Here’s How
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...
5 Foundational Steps to Create a Data-Driven Hospital
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...
3 Steps to Unlock the Hidden Potential of Millennial Clinicians
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...
Group Competitions: Deceptively Powerful
As part of laying the foundation with a new hospital customer, one of the first things we do is set up a group hand hygiene competition. We build teams based on shift, unit or job role, or we can create random teams to compete in a bracket challenge....
Positive Culture (Phase 3 of our Hand Hygiene Improvement Process)
What kind of culture does your organization really have as it relates to patient safety? Everyone wants to say that they have a rewarding culture that puts the patient first, but if most hospitals are honest, they typically fall short of this goal....
The Advantages of Early Adoption
The Technology Adoption Curve has become a familiar sight of late, since it can apply to the adoption of nearly any innovation. The 2.5% of the population that are Innovators typically see the greatest benefit from being first to adopt something new,...
What’s That You Said?
One of the reasons our electronic hand hygiene performance system works so well is that we use a human voice to remind clinicians to clean their hands. Our patented Real-Time Voice Reminder™ is the only one on the market. We’ve seen over and ...
“By Clinicians, For Clinicians” – What Does That Really Mean?
Clean Hands – Safe Hands is the only electronic hand hygiene monitoring system that was designed by clinicians, for clinicians. But what does that really mean? And why should you care? Eleven years ago, when I was in graduate school, a physician I ...
Can You Hear Me? (Phase 2 of our Hand Hygiene Improvement Process)
What’s the primary goal of your hand hygiene monitoring? Is it really just about monitoring? No! You don’t use a thermometer to treat a septic patient, nor a CT to treat a patient who is suspected to have had a stroke. Simply monitoring a problem...
The Hidden Secret of C. diff and the HAC Penalty
Do you know your HAC score? Is your hospital on the HAC list? If not, do you think you are safe? Think again. Unless your Hospital-Acquired Condition score is below 3, your facility is likely one outbreak away from getting on the HAC list. Take a loo...