Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring - Stanley Healthcare Solutions

Hand Hygiene Compliance MonitoringApplication NoteImprove Patient Safety and Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections by Automating theMonitoring of Hand Hygiene ComplianceChallenges• Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAI) are one of the most preventablecauses leading to patient mortality• The practice of hand hygiene has long been recognized as the mostimportant way to reduce the transmission of infectious agents withina hospital or healthcare setting• Failure to properly comply with simple handwashing practices hasbeen estimated to contribute to approximately 50% of all HAIs, whichkill about 100,000 people each year in the U.S.and cost hospitals between $4 billion and $29billion annually• New CMS rulings deny hospitals Medicarereimbursements for HAIs• The Joint Commission National PatientSafety Goal (NPSG) 7 states that healthcareorganizations must perform an accurate“baseline assessment of hand hygiene in orderto identify opportunities for improvement”• Obtaining baseline data requires monitoringstaff in clinical areas as they provide patientcare –documenting hand washing before and after each patientencounter. This is inaccurate, time consuming and resource intensive.• There is no standardized method for collecting and reporting rates ofhand hygiene compliance. The compliance rate is greatly influencedby what indications are chosen for measurement as well as where andhow compliance is measured.SolutionThe AeroScout Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring Solution enableshospitals to automatically detect whether staff members wash their handsas they go in and out of patient rooms.Healthcare Organizations Focuson Hand HygieneAssociation for Professionals in InfectionControl (APIC) states:• “Transition must occur from reactive toproactive surveillance and behavioralintervention“World Health Organization:• “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” campaignlaunches (May 2009)The Joint Commission:• Educational Monograph “Measuring HandHygiene Adherence“ (February 2009)• Announces “Center for TransformingHealthcare” – first Safety Project is HandHygieneCMS – National Patient Safety Initiative:• Multi-year financial commitment thataims to curb hospital-acquired infectionsand readmissions• Links $70 billion in Medicare funds tohospitals’ ability to achieve performancemetrics, 6% of hospitals’ paymentscontingent on meeting safety measures,proportion increasing to 9% by 2015The solution is comprised of the following components:• AeroScout Wi-Fi Tags worn by caregivers• Embedded AeroScout Exciters in soap/gel dispensers• AeroScout Exciters in patient rooms to identify hand washingopportunities (optional)• AeroScout MobileView Hand Hygiene application that provides handhygiene compliance reporting and alerting

Contact InformationCorporate Headquarters1300 Island Drive, Suite 202Redwood City, CA 94065Tel: +1 650 596 2994Fax: +1 650 596 2969E-mail: info@aeroscout.comEurope, Middle East, Africa OfficeTel: +32 2 709 29 49Fax: +32 2 791 90 28E-mail: emea@aeroscout.comJapan OfficeTel: +81 3 3556 9003Fax: +81 3 5875 3723E-mail: info@aeroscout.co.jpAsia-Pacific SalesTel: +1 650 596 2994E-mail: apac@aeroscout.comAustralia and New Zealand SalesTel : +61 3 9013 4449E-mail: anz@aeroscout.comLatin America OfficeTel: +52 55 5001 5769E-mail: latam@aeroscout.comAbout AeroScoutAeroScout is the market leader inUnified Asset Visibility solutions.Customers improve operationalefficiency using AeroScout productsthat leverage standard Wi-Fi networksto track and manage the location,condition and status of mobile assetsand people. AeroScout’s globalcustomer base consists of leadinghospital, manufacturing and logisticsorganizations, including many of theFortune 500. The company inventedthe first Wi-Fi-based Active RFIDtag, and today is widely recognizedas leading the market in numberof deployments and tags shipped.Headquartered in Redwood City,California, AeroScout has officesin Europe, the Middle East, Asia,Australia and Latin America.For more information, please visithttp://www.aeroscout.com.As a caregiver enters or leaves a patient room and dispenses soap or gel from a dispenser,an embedded AeroScout Exciter unit in the dispenser is activated. This Exciter triggers atag worn by the caregiver, to send a message over the hospital’s Wi-Fi network identifyingthe caregiver, the activation of the dispenser and the time and location of the event.The AeroScout Hand Hygiene solution supports collection and reporting of uniformhand hygiene measurements across the organization. A standard set of reportswithin the AeroScout MobileView Hand Hygiene application provides hand washingcompliance data based on an individual staff member; a defined staff group (e.g., nursesor physicians); location (e.g., specific nursing unit); and time or day. These reports areused on a daily, weekly or monthly basis to identify current compliance rates and targetopportunities for hand hygiene process improvement efforts. Monitoring improvementtrends as specific training or other process changes are implemented is made possiblewithout impacting staff as they provide patient care and without requiring additionalresources for manual monitoring and data capture. Customizable business rules supportprocess and workflow variability across and within organizations.The AeroScout Hand Hygiene solution enables hospitals to achieve their goal of increasedhand hygiene compliance across their organization. Furthermore, the AeroScout HandHygiene solution leverages the same infrastructure and components used for the broaderAeroScout Healthcare Visibility solutions for Asset Management, Temperature & HumidityMonitoring, Patient Flow, Patient Elopement, Nurse Call and Staff Duress.Benefits• Enables Infection Control and Process Improvement staff to focuson compliance, education and data analysis rather than monitoringand tabulating hand hygiene compliance rates• Does not disrupt routine patient care workflows• Provides both group and individual reporting• Leverages existing investment in Wi-Fi network and automaticsoap/gel dispensersCopyright © 2011 AeroScout, Inc. All Rights Reserved. AeroScout is a registered trademark of AeroScout, Inc. Information issubject to change without notice. Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance.