Method & Apparatus for Improving Hand-Sanitizing Compliance in Health Care Facilities

摘要

Embodiments of the invention track users' hand-cleaning compliance and display an indication of each user's compliance so that others can estimate how well each user complies with policy guidelines. Making sanitation compliance visible in this way enables social pressure to be focused on negligent users without requiring others to take specific, individual actions to call out a negligent user. Other features of the system are also described and claimed.

主权项

1. A hand-sanitizing compliance improving system, comprising:
a hand-sanitizing station having a wireless transmitter operative to transmit a signal when the hand-sanitizing station is operated by an individual; and a hand-sanitizing compliance monitor having a wireless receiver operative to receive the signal from the hand-sanitizing station, wherein the hand-sanitizing compliance monitor is adapted to be carried by the individual, and the hand-sanitizing compliance monitor emits a human-perceptible indication of an elapsed time since the wireless receiver last received the signal from the hand-sanitizing station, wherein the human-perceptible indication includes a first distinguishable indication corresponding to a first time period immediately following the transmission and reception of the signal, a second distinguishable indication corresponding to a second time period following the first time period, and a third distinguishable indication corresponding to a third time period following the second time period.