System and method for improving hand hygiene
OwnerMarc Howard Diazinventor
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Abstract
A hand hygiene module and method of instructing and monitoring compliance of a hand hygiene event include a sanitizer dispensing device and the steps of identifying an initiation of a use of the sanitizer dispensing device and actively sequentially providing a plurality of stimuli to a user during the use of the sanitizer dispensing device, the plurality of stimuli including at least one of an audible signaling and a visual signaling and actively sequentially instructing each of a plurality of hygiene steps.
Claims17
A method for improving hand hygiene compliance comprising:
- providing a sanitizer dispensing device;
- providing an attention stimulus operably configured to draw the attention of a user to the sanitizer dispensing device and varying the attention stimulus based on an environmental factor, the environmental factor including at least one of:
- a time of year, and a flu or cold season;
- identifying the user's initiation of a use by the user of the sanitizer dispensing device to sanitize a hand of the user;
- and
- actively sequentially providing a plurality of stimuli to the user during the user's use of the sanitizer dispensing device to sanitize the user's hand, the plurality of stimuli including at least one of an audible signal and a visual signal and actively sequentially instructing the user to perform each of a plurality of hygiene steps.
A method for improving hand hygiene compliance comprising:
- providing a first stimulus to a user to initiate a hand hygiene event by the user, the hand hygiene event having a plurality of hand hygiene steps, the first stimulus including at least one of an audible signal and a visual signal;
- adjusting the first stimulus based on a location of a sanitizer dispensing device associated with the first stimulus;
- identifying an initiation by the user of a use by the user of the sanitizer dispensing device to engage in the hand hygiene event;
- actively sequentially providing a plurality of second stimuli to the user during the user's use of the sanitizer dispensing device to engage in the hand hygiene event, the plurality of second stimuli including at least one of an audible signal and a visual signal and actively sequentially instructing the user to perform the plurality of hand hygiene steps;
- monitoring whether the user performed the plurality of hand hygiene steps;
- and
- alerting as to whether the user performed the plurality of hygiene steps.
A system for facilitating and monitoring a hand hygiene, the system comprising:
- a hand sanitizer dispensing device;
- a thermal imager operably configured to detect individuals with pyrexia;
- and
- a display operable to actively and sequentially display a plurality of stimuli to a user during a use by the user of the hand sanitizer dispensing device, the plurality of stimuli actively sequentially instructing the user to perform each of a plurality of hygiene steps.
A system for facilitating and monitoring a hand hygiene process, the system comprising:
- a hand sanitizer dispensing device;
- a display operable to actively and sequentially display a plurality of stimuli to a user during a use by the user of the hand sanitizer dispensing device to engage in a hand hygiene event, the plurality of stimuli actively sequentially instructing the user to perform each of a plurality of hygiene steps;
- a wearable device dispensing module;
- and
- a controller operable to prevent the wearable device dispensing module from dispensing a wearable device until subsequent to a detection of a compliance by the user, the user's compliance defined by whether the user performed the plurality of hand hygiene steps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.