Distributed to personnel of hospital badges with sensors for control of washing of hands

At the beginning of August, 2020 the SwipeSense company suggested hospitals to use badges with sensors which control whether the personnel at an input and an exit from chamber washed up hands. Besides, this technology can be used for tracking of expensive assets, such as wheelchairs or intravenous pumps. About 50 hospitals in the USA already use SwipeSense in the work.

Earlier the SwipeSense system used only the sensors which are built in the equipment and walls of hospital chambers. However during COVID-19 pandemic developers suggested to use similar devices and in personnel badges. Thanks to the acquired information the program could create the virtual card of hospital for tracking of movements of personnel and documentation of contacts with koronavirusny patients.

Badges with sensors for control of washing of hands for medical personnel

Edward-Elmhurst Health in Illinois became one of the first hospitals which implemented this technology. About 3600 employees of hospital agreed to carry SwipeSense badges, and by the end of March, 2020 in hospital the meter panel which administrators could use for assessment of contacts of personnel and patients already functioned. The manager assured doctors and nurses that a system will be used only for prevention of outbreak of a coronavirus, without tracking of breaks in work.

Perhaps, exactly thanks to the SwipeSense system the share of the employees who caught COVID-19 at work decreased from 17% in March, 2020 to less than 1% by June. When COVID-19 unexpectedly detected in one of patients, the command of hospital used SwipeSense to identify contact persons. As a result of 75 employees asked to pass test and to be isolated for 72 hours. At one of doctors the positive result on COVID-19 was received, but it was isolated in time and did not allow to extend to a virus further.^[1]

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