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(Medical-NewsWire.com, June 06, 2013 ) Boca Raton, FL --- Biovigil Hygiene Technologies, LLC will be launching its innovative hand hygiene compliance system at this years annual APIC (The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology) convention being held in Ft. Lauderdale, FL June 8-10.
Additionally, on Sunday June 9th @ 9:30am an oral presentation will be made to conference attendees by Theresa K. Gratton, RN, BSN Infection Prevention Coordinator SSM St. Mary's Health Center Richmond Heights, MO regarding important collaborative research findings from having used the Biovigil system in two busy acute care settings over the last six months.
Did you know that approximately 2 million patients per year contract a Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) every year in the US? Worse, approximately 100,000 of these patients die from such infections making HAI’s the fourth leading cause of death in America. All at an added cost to the U.S. healthcare system of between $30 and $40 billion dollars each year.
The single most important factor in the reduction and prevention of HAIs is proper hand hygiene. BIOVIGIL develops and delivers innovative, leading-edge hand hygiene improvement solutions that deliver 95+% compliance with stated gel in & gel out policies, thereby reducing risk and increasing patient satisfaction.
It has always been simple to sanitize your hands in between patient interactions. Sadly however, multiple studies reveal that this only occurs about 50% of the time. BIOVIGIL now makes this task easy to remember and simple for healthcare facilities to fully comply with stated policies while also providing visual assurance to patients and family members that they are being properly protected.
The BIOVIGIL system does not interrupt clinical workflow and is extremely easy to install and use ensuring that the right thing happens, every time…even when no one is looking.
About BIOVIGIL
BIOVIGIL was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Developing effective and compelling hygiene technologies is our sole business focus. Our company differentiates itself from competitive solutions by way of a number of patents, which are unique to our product use-cases and system solutions for hand hygiene detection and reporting.
BIOVIGIL’s patented technology can be easily deployed in most any setting where monitoring and compliance to hand hygiene policies are essential to protecting, or improving patient and/or staff safety.
BIOVIGIL’s technology utilizes a simple room sensor, a plug-in base station and a small personnel use badge similar to a standard identification badge. The system is designed to remind and detect actual hand sanitizing events and automatically communicates compliance information to base stations located within the facility and then securely forwards data (with or without using the facilities local area network) to an Internet cloud host for compliance reporting and application functions.
BIOVIGIL’s advanced system provides unparalleled user accountability and delivers new levels of patient and staff satisfaction by providing visual confirmation (by way of green, yellow, red status lights on the badge) that proper hand hygiene is being adhered to with every room entry and exit and patient interaction.
For more information visit http://www.biovigilsystems.com
MultiMedia Productions
Gila Stern
561-988-9449 x269
gstern@mmpusa.com
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