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Monitoring System Stops Hospital
Infections with
Traffic Light Camera to Capture
Hand Hygiene Violators
ISLIP, N.Y., May 13, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 5th, the
World Health Organization
launched a worldwide initiative called SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands (http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/index.html).
More lives are lost to Hospital Acquired Infections than
car accidents, breast
cancer and HIV
combined. Over 2 million patients are affected and 100,000 people a year die
from HAIs such as MRSA, at a combined medical cost far exceeding $50
billion. The CDC estimates that at least half of all hospital infections are
preventable through good hand
hygiene. Currently, only 40% of hospital workers sanitize their
hands.
When implemented, this recently developed, active surveillance hygiene
monitoring system assures patients virtual 100% compliance with hand washing
protocol by all hospital personnel while at the same time reducing staff
workload by eliminating many unnecessary hand-cleaning procedures! Utilizing
a proprietary concept, the patient is completely surrounded by an invisible,
electro-static Bio-Field. Any intrusion into this field by persons not
properly sanitized will be immediately detected and the violator's identity
recorded. Capable of identifying and tracking those persons who have and
have not satisfactorily sanitized their hands prior to contact with the
patient, the system provides a caution message to the hospital workers and
visitors alike relating to their hygiene status prior to entering the
Bio-Field. Digital imaging
locates the HCW and determines their direction and proximity to the patient.
Fixed base and portable personal sanitizing dispensers interact with a
digital display screen with color coordinated visual and audio messages
reflecting a person's hygiene status and proximity to the patient.
Individuals who have successfully complied with hygiene rules are
respectively acknowledged by color-coded animated images and graphics on the
display screen. Digital imaging and logic allows the system to anticipate
specific actions by hospital staff that may result in contact with the
patient before they actually occur. Intelligent monitoring minimizes the
generation of false warnings while reducing unnecessary, time-consuming hand
washing when caregiver/patient contamination is not probable, such as simple
viewing of a monitor or offering a greeting to a patient. Similar in
function to a red light traffic camera, those who fail to follow proper
hygiene protocol receive a warning and images of their violation are
recorded and stored for administrative action.
The risk of serious hospital infections from contaminated, unwashed hands
has been well known for over 150 years. Even with the best-faith efforts on
the part of hospital
administrators, getting overworked hospital staff to change their
patterns of hand hygiene has resulted in a nominal 40% compliance rate.
"Implementation of a program utilizing active electronic monitoring of all
health care workers
and visitors regarding their hand hygiene status when contacting a patient
will assure a near 100% hygiene rule compliance with a concomitant reduction
in hospital infections and deaths," says bio-engineer Dr. Richard Deutsch,
who invented the patent pending, interactive system. "Now, when patients are
visited by their doctors and
nurses, everyone will know if proper hygiene precautions have been
taken beforehand and the entire
health care system
will greatly benefit in lives and dollars saved."
Locals suitable for this digital imaging hygiene detection and compliance
design include hospitals, outpatient medical facilities and extended care
facilities. Pictures, descriptions and additional details for the Safe-Hands
interactive hygiene monitoring system can be found at
http://www.safehandsnow.com/
.
Contact:
Dr. Richard Deutsch
866-949 6275
newideas@ix.netcom.com
Source: Healthquest Technologies Inc.
CONTACT: Dr. Richard Deutsch,
+1-866-949-6275,
newideas@ix.netcom.com
Web Site:
http://www.safehandsnow.com/
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