In the United States alone, more than 100,000 people die each year due to infections acquired during hospital stays. Many of these infections occur because health-care professionals failed to wash well enough. IntelligentM has developed an RFID-enabled solution to encourage workers to thoroughly clean their hands, thereby combating the age-old problem of infection transmission that occurs in medical facilities. IntelligentM’s wristband uses RFID to read tags at sanitizing and washing stations. An accelerometer detects how long someone spends cleaning his or her hands, and then issues an alert. One vibration signals adequate washing, while three buzzes indicate additional time should be spent at the sink. RFID tags are also placed outside patients’ rooms and on some equipment, enabling the system to alert health-care workers to wash their hands before performing a procedure that carries a high infection risk. Learn how the solution can be utilized to combat hospital-acquired infections.
Speaker:
Seth Freedman, President, intelligentM