Eight U.S. hand-hygiene compliance solution providers formed an alliance, Electronic Hand-hygiene Compliance Organization.
Here are five takeaways:
1. The providers formed the alliance to create more awareness about how outdated hand hygiene compliance measures increase patient safety risks and place a burden on the economy.
2. EHCO seeks to lead and incite change in hand-hygiene measurement policies and guidelines at accreditation organizations, government agencies, payers and hospitals.
3. Through enhanced hand hygiene compliance, EHCO hopes to limit avoidable harm to patients and hospital personnel.
4. Airista, BioVigil, CenTrak, Clean Hands-Safe Hands, DebMed, Hill-Rom, SwipeSense and Versus Technology are participating in EHCO.
5. "Patient health and lives are being put at risk by outdated compliance measurement methods which often inflate actual hand hygiene rates by up to 300 percent," said Paul Alper, chairman of EHCO and vice president of patient safety strategy for DebMed.
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