Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner knows a thing or two about data — for the best-selling book, the journalist and writer examined troves of data to answer a variety of questions, including whether ...

Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control detailed how continuous electronic monitoring of individuals’ hand hygiene can more accurately calculate compliance over just following ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using business intelligence software, hand hygiene compliance data were shared in real time. Compliance rates ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hand hygiene is described by many health care workers as the single most important tool in preventing the spread ...

David Sellers is vice president of clinical research at Proventix Systems, Inc., a healthcare technology company based in Birmingham, Alabama. that produces nGage™, an electronic hand-hygiene ...

Memorial Healthcare budgets to implement Intelligent Observations' sensor-driven approach systemwide. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, a small but growing number of hospitals are investigating or ...

Hand hygiene is consistently one of the most challenging parts to patient care, averaging well below 50 percent compliance in many institutions. Here are five things staff in charge of boosting hand ...

Running from patient room to patient room, it can be surprisingly easy for doctors and nurses to forget to wash their hands, especially if they’re dealing with an emergency. Hospitals have been ...

Evanston, Illinois-based SwipeSense, which is developing a smart hand hygiene sensor, raised $1.7 million, according to an SEC filing. This brings the company's total funding to at least $2.5 million ...

After visiting Ellis Island in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt noted the lack of hand-washing by doctors and wrote the Public Health Service that he was “struck by the way doctors made the ...