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US 9,959,743 B2Granted
Hygiene compliance system
AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.
InventorsMatthew D. Morgan, Joshua P. Lingenfelser, Bradley T. Smith, Christian Saucier, Andrew S. Robinson, Timothy D. Wildman, Kelly F. Walton, Hailey R. Hamalainen, Christopher Perry
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Abstract
According to the present disclosure, a hygiene compliance system includes a handwash sensor, a badge, an occupant sensor, and a remote computer. The sensors and the badge may communicate with the remote computer to provide information regarding hygiene events. The hygiene compliance system determines whether the hygiene events comply with a hygiene operations scheme.
Claims20
A hygiene compliance system, comprising:
- a handwash sensor configured to transmit a handwash signal indicative of handwash device operation,
- at least one badge worn by a badged-person and configured to transmit a badge signal,
- an occupant sensor configured to detect a number of persons in a room and to transmit an occupant signal that is used to determine the number of persons in the room, and
- a remote computer configured to communicate with the handwash sensor and the occupant sensor,
- wherein the remote computer determines a hygiene compliance rate based on the handwash signal and the occupant signal, and
- wherein the hygiene compliance rate is based on a badged-handwash compliance rate comprising a number of badged-person handwash events compared to a number of required badged-person handwash events, and an unadjusted compliance rate comprising a number of total handwash events compared to a number of required total handwash events.
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