Hand hygiene system
AssigneeClean Contact ApS
InventorDaniel Sigrist Christensen
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Abstract
There is provided a system for monitoring hygiene compliance in a medical facility. The system includes personnel tags for patients and for healthcare workers within the facility; sensors, to be carried by healthcare workers, which recognize personnel tags for patients within a distance of 1 meter; washing stations provided with tags which are recognized by said sensors within a distance of 0.5 meter; and a control unit, to be carried by the healthcare workers, said control unit being programmed to detect whether a healthcare worker bearing one of the personnel tags accessed a washing station prior to contacting a patient bearing a separate one of the personnel tags.
Claims12
A system for monitoring hygiene compliance in a medical facility, comprising:
- personnel tags, such as RFID tags, for patients and for healthcare workers within the facility;
- sensors, to be carried by healthcare workers, which recognize personnel tags for patients within a distance of 1 meter;
- washing stations provided with tags which are recognized by said sensors within a distance of 0.5 meter;
- a control unit, to be carried by the healthcare workers, said control unit being programmed to detect whether a healthcare worker bearing one of the personnel tags accessed a washing station prior to contacting a patient bearing a separate one of the personnel tags.
A system for monitoring hygiene compliance in a medical facility, comprising:
- devices for detecting skin contact between healthcare workers, patients and visitors within the facility;
- washing stations provided with tags which are recognized by sensors, to be carried by healthcare workers, within a distance of 0.5 meter;
- a control unit, to be carried by the healthcare workers, said control unit being programmed to detect whether a healthcare worker accessed a washing station after having had skin contact with a patient, a visitor or another healthcare worker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.