Hand hygiene compliance system

A hand hygiene compliance system comprising:

• a plurality of nodes corresponding to objects in a physical location, the plurality of nodes forming a wireless mesh network, each node comprising at least one network protocol, at least one storage location, and application software;
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• hand hygiene compliance software for execution on the nodes in the wireless mesh network;
• the hand hygiene compliance software, when executed on the nodes of the wireless mesh network, is configured to cause the nodes to at least:
• identify that an individual has entered the physical location;
• identify a hand hygiene protocol for the individual, wherein the identified hand hygiene protocol is based at least in part on one or more nodes in the wireless mesh network and in the vicinity of the individual;
• determine that the individual has not followed the hand hygiene protocol, the determining responsive to a previous and a current location of the individual relative to the objects in the physical location, based at least in part on communication between two or more nodes that are in the wireless mesh network and are in the vicinity of the individual;
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• notify the individual in response to determining that the individual has not followed the hand hygiene protocol.

A computer program product for monitoring the performance of hand hygiene compliance, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
• identifying, via a node in a wireless mesh network, that an individual has entered a physical location, the wireless mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes corresponding to objects in the physical location, each node comprising at least one network protocol, at least one storage location, and application software;
• identifying a hand hygiene protocol for the individual, wherein the identified hand hygiene protocol is based at least in part on one or more nodes in the wireless mesh network and in the vicinity of the individual;
• determining that the individual has not followed the hand hygiene protocol, the determining performed by software executing on one or more nodes in the wireless mesh network and in the vicinity of the individual and responsive to a previous and a current location of the individual relative to the objects in the physical location, based at least in part on communication between two or more nodes that are in the wireless mesh network and are in the vicinity of the individual;
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• notifying the individual in response to determining that the individual has not followed the hand hygiene protocol.