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Cameras, sensor tags used to monitor caregivers to prevent infection |
June 02, 2013
With nightmarish superbugs threatening the lives of patients and healthcare workers, hospitals are taking considerable precautions to track who is and who isn't washing their hands.
For example, Summerville Medical Center, a 94-bed acute-care hospital in South Carolina, is having employees wear sensor tags to determine who is washing their hands before and after coming into contact with patients.
The technology was first rolled out in the medical center's intensive care unit in the spring of 2012 and then expanded to its surgery units and the emergency room.
Developed by GE Healthcare, the sensor tags are called AgileTrac RTLS (Real-Time Location System). The automated system supporting the RTLS tags collect up to 5,000 data points a day, compared with 700 per year with manual observation by staff.
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