Hill-Rom launches hospital hand hygiene monitoring solution
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Hill-Rom, a manufacturer and provider of medical technologies and related services for the health care industry, has developed a new system to help hospitals monitor hand-hygiene rates.
The Hill-Rom Hand Hygiene Compliance Solution, which is now available to hospitals in the US, provides real-time monitoring and staff reminders, simplifies reporting, and can use the same hardware and devices as other Hill-Rom real-time locating solutions.
The new Hill-Rom Hand Hygiene Compliance Solution includes a platform that uses badge-based locating technology to track hand-hygiene events throughout the hospital. The system enables automatic, continuous monitoring and recording of every time a staff member uses a hand-hygiene station. It proactively alerts caregivers and provides a gentle reminder upon entering a care environment. Manual monitoring and reporting can be eliminated. Managers will have the ability to run reports for their staffs, providing valuable data for training and generating the data in a format to support reporting.
The system has been implemented in a number of institutions around the US that are participating in a pilot programme. With more than 2.5 million hand-hygiene events recorded to date, the system is already helping hospital administrators better understand their staff's hand-hygiene patterns.
'Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to do, and that is certainly true for hospitals in achieving universal compliance with hand-hygiene guidelines,' says Adam McMullin, Vice President and General Manager, Hill-Rom IT Solutions. 'The good news for hospitals is that a number of studies have shown that implementing a hand-hygiene monitoring programme along with policies and interventions can improve hand-hygiene compliance rates throughout the institution.'
