Hygiene
Monitoring System Stops Hospital Infections with Traffic Light Camera to Capture Hand Hygiene Violators
Published in AIDS Weekly, May 25th, 2009
On May 5th, the World Health Organization launched a worldwide initiative called SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 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...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-05-25)
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