System and method to manage hand hygiene
AssigneesGeneral Electric Company, C/HCA, Inc.
InventorsTodd Scarola, Chuck Hall
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Abstract
A system and method to track management of hand hygiene is provided. The system includes a wireless tracking system to detect a resource within a proximity of a dispenser of sanitizer. The system can detects a release of the sanitizer from the dispenser, transmits a wireless signal from a transmitter at the dispenser to a receiver, and creates a display that includes a time of the release of sanitizer at the dispenser and a resource within the proximity of the dispenser at the time of release.
Claims20
A method to manage hand hygiene, the method comprising the steps of
- detecting a release of sanitizer from a dispenser;
- transmitting a wireless signal from a transmitter at the dispenser to a receiver;
- and
- creating a graphic illustration of a time of the release of sanitizer at the dispenser.
A system to track a resource use of a dispenser of sanitizer, the dispenser having a handle to release the sanitizer, the system comprising:
- a wireless transmitter located at the dispenser, the wireless transmitter to transmit a wireless signal including a location address of the dispenser and a time of release of sanitizer from the dispenser;
- a magnet at the handle of the dispenser that moves with the handle to trigger transmitting of the wireless signal from the wireless transmitter at the dispenser;
- a tracking system to communicate a wireless signal including an identifier of the resource and a time of detection of the resource within a predetermined proximity of the dispenser;
- and
- a display of an identification of the resource at the time of the release of sanitizer from the dispenser.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.