Ekahau RTLS runs over a hospital’s existing Wi-Fi network. The staff badges enable the RTLS system to automatically monitor staff-patient interactions, as well as when the staff member washes his or her hands before and after interacting with a patient in order to calculate compliance based on hospital policy.
Staff members can also receive reminders and status information on the text display of their badges to help improve hand hygiene compliance. To ensure full compliance, the Ekahau transmitters that are integrated into the dispensers will only be activated when hands are sanitized, eliminating any false information from being collected.
Read the news release about Ekahau’s Wi-Fi Hand Hygiene Monitoring solution.
Read more about ideas to improve hand hygiene:
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– 3 Inexpensive Ways to Increase Infection Prevention Efforts
– Patient Safety in 2011: 6 Thoughts by Harlan Pollock, MD, President of AAAASF
