TIPS Sudden Science Survey: Hand Hygiene Monitoring Tool

This survey is closedThank you to everyone who took part – the response exceeded our expectations – and to SafeContact Solutions for co-sponsoring this TIPS Sudden Science survey. The details below are kept for reference.

2018 TIPS Sudden Science Survey #1019801:
Hand Hygiene Monitoring Tool

The Infection Prevention Strategy is proud to launch its first in a series of surveys to garner stakeholder feedback on a wide variety of innovations and concepts in the field of infection prevention and control.

When institutions invest in new technologies, the goal is to secure a better outcome, which may be measured in terms of improved financial returns, reduced bad results or increased good results. However, these benefits will only pay off when new products or routines are properly integrated into the workflow of employees and institutions. If innovations are not fully embraced, even the best technologies will fail to deliver the return on investment promised or expected. Appropriate vetting and feedback is critical at the development phase of a new product.

The Infection Prevention Strategy has created a model of information sharing that makes the process of vetting new technologies, implementing successful programs and inspiring innovation more efficient, more accessible, more global and more collaborative. Known as TIPS Sudden Science, the program is driven by the firm belief that we should not have to wait years for promising innovations, ideas and processes to be implemented and accepted. Around the world, our teams develop trials and conduct pilot studies to aid in the discovery of successful research to market technological advancements.

This series of surveys is one step in the vetting and feedback process to ensure that the innovators are considering the end users in their product design.

Survey #1019801: Hand Hygiene Monitoring Tool

Why we are vetting this product:

The prevalence of hospital-borne disease is well-studied and characterized. It is indisputable that the hospital environment can foster the propagation of many pathogens. With fomites (materials that can harbour harmful microorganisms) ranging from sinks and textiles to patients and healthcare workers themselves, our current technologies are having difficulty keeping up with the pathogens’ race for survival through the development of antibiotic resistance, among other things.

Innovative technologies can improve patient and worker outcomes by reducing the transmission of illnesses, which make the lives of healthcare workers, infection control personnel, and everyone else involved much easier. Whether it is by reducing the burden on limited resources such as cleaning time, improving the amount of control over the number of pathogens on hospital surfaces or by eliminating costly fines (through reduced reimbursements) for hospital acquired infections (HAIs), these products and workflows have changed the hospital landscape to what it is today.

The product being vetted in this survey is a novel hand hygiene monitoring tool that utilizes Artificial Intelligence Monitoring (AIM) to coach employees in hand hygiene compliance in a healthcare setting, in real time. This technology may be what is needed to improve hand hygiene compliance rates to improve health outcomes by reducing the spread of healthcare-associated infections.

Survey closed

This survey is no longer accepting responses. Thank you to everyone who took part and for supporting the TIPS Sudden Science program.

The gift-card draw for survey participants ended on December 31, 2018.

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