Category Archives: Blog
Improve Patient Satisfaction by Measuring Clinical Visits
Do you know how often the clinicians in your hospital visit the patients under their care? Do individual nurses visit patients about the same number of times per shift? Does the day of the week matter? Or time of day? Until recently, it has been impo...
Making the Invisible Visible: Clinical Intervention Data
Healthcare organizations are struggling. The transition to value-based care is a financial challenge that has negatively impacted profits, and smaller hospitals are being acquired. Nurse/physician shortages and burnout are making it increasingly diff...
Vital Signs Measure Staff Engagement
Clinical vital signs are leading indicators of a patient’s health – these key data points help healthcare providers quickly identify any indications that a patient’s health is trending in the wrong direction. Along the same lines, we have intro...
Staff Engagement: Talking About Hand Hygiene is Magic!
Did you know there is a “magic bullet” that consistently increases – and sustains – high hand hygiene performance? We’ve seen over and over that staff engagement and hand hygiene increase when hand hygiene is discussed frequently. This char...
Exposure Tracing Made Simple
One of our hospital customers recently had a patient diagnosed with a highly contagious infection that could result in a life-threatening situation if passed to healthcare providers. In this case, the patient was in the hospital for several days befo...
Patient Safety Awareness Week is Next Week – Here’s What to Do
Patient Safety Awareness Week starts this Sunday, March 8. What’s your hospital planning to do to get involved? Here are comprehensive resources for the week from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. They include: Get Involved: There are a var...
Clinician Spotlight: Jonathan Fox
One of the first winners of our new Customer Awards is Jonathan Fox, a nurse at Emory Decatur Hospital. Jonathan had the highest hand hygiene rate of all nurses in all hospitals using the Clean Hands – Safe Hands system across the country during th...
If I Didn’t Speak Up…No One Else Will
I really surprised myself last week, and not in a good way. My significant other had an unexpected hospital stay, and I now have a new appreciation for what it’s like to be a patient. I’ve worked in the hand hygiene field for nearly two years now...
Saving Nearly 40 Lives a Year
Two weeks ago, we released new data showing that, in our ten most recent hospital installations, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) decreased by an average of over 60%. We covered the financial impact on these hospitals last week. While this is ...
Saving Nearly $10 Million a Year
Last week, we released new data showing that, in our ten most recent hospital installations, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) decreased by an average of over 60% in six months. There were declines in each type of HAI as well. While this is cer...