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Sustainable Change for Healthcare Hand Hygiene is a Process
If achieving excellent hand hygiene rates resulted from simply purchasing and installing an electronic monitoring system, every hospital in America would already own a high-tech system. The upfront investment would quickly be offset by decreased heal...
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...
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...
Workflow Process Enhancement (Phase 5 of our Hand Hygiene Acceleration Pathway)
You can’t just install technology into a complex organization and expect it to significantly change people’s behavior. In order to enable sustainable change, the technology needs to be paired with a process that drives a culture of positive, cont...
A Personal Best Approach (Phase 4 of our Hand Hygiene Acceleration Pathway)
It takes more than just technology to increase hand hygiene performance and reduce HAIs. The technology needs to be paired with a process that leads to culture change and sustainable results. We start creating a positive culture in phase 3, which inc...
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...
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....
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...