RFIDNews | HandGiene develops RFID hand washing system

Thursday, October 15, 2009

HandGiene Corp. has developed an RFID-enabled Hand Wash Monitoring System designed to ensure employees follow established hand washing protocols.

Under the system, each employee is issued an RFID embedded name tag. This tags are read by RFID enabled hand cleanser dispensing units and ancillary RFID readers that monitor employees as they move about the facility, in and out of the kitchen or storage rooms and use the bathroom and, in the case of a hospital, patient rooms. Each and every hand wash incidence is monitored and hand washes are logged into an database where administrators can access it in real time.

HandGiene developed the system specifically for use in health care and food service industries, where incidences of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) and food borne illnesses still number in the millions.

Report: RFID to be a billion-dollar market in health care

Kalorama Information, an independent market researcher, suggests that there will be nearly a billion-dollar market for RFID in the health care industry.

In its new report, “The Global Market for RFID in Health care,” Kalorama notes that RFID systems employed in health care settings may enable management to keep track of their staff’s compliance with policies, monitoring the rooms that enter and what inventory they use, and even how often they wash their hands.

Alabama hospital pilots RFID for hygiene compliance

The Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama is involved in a pilot study testing the use of RFID technology to monitor compliance with hand washing guidelines, according to a local news report.

Spanish blood bank saves time and improves safety with RFID

Spain’s Balearic Islands Blood and Tissue Bank is using a combination of Nordic ID hand held readers with an RFID system from Barcelona-based Aifo Solutions to track some 30,000 blood bags.

Dynamic Computer Corp. develops RFID hand-washing application

Dynamic Computer Corp. has developed a hand hygiene monitor application made possible by RFID technology, to reduce yearly incidences of health care-associated infections (HAIs).

The solution uses RFID readers in soap dispensing units that monitor staff member’s via their RFID-enabled ID badges, and capture the location and timing of hand hygiene compliance.

ODIN set to release handheld reader benchmark study

ODIN Labs, the scientific testing division of RFID software provider ODIN, intends to release Sept.8 testing results for eight RFID hand held readers. The RFID Hand held Reader Benchmark is designed to help end users differentiate between the many hand held models available and provide scientific input into the procurement process.

FL hospital uses RFID to monitor employee hand washing

The University of Miami UM-JMH Center for Patient Safety at Jackson Memorial Hospital is testing a new system of monitoring employee hand washing using RFID and infrared technologies.

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