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(Medical-NewsWire.com, June 08, 2013 ) Boca Raton, FL --- 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.
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“Infection prevention is at the forefront of people’s minds these days,” stated JL Haber, Vice President of Programming for 21st Century Health. “BIOVIGIL is a leader in their industry and thus is a natural fit for our program.”
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 that proper hand hygiene is being adhered to with every patient room entry and exit.
“We are very pleased to be working with 21 Century Health to help get the word out that there now exists a viable solution to effectively tackle this huge patient safety challenge,” stated Brent Nibarger – Chief Client Officer for Biovigil Hygiene Technologies.
Biovigil 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.
For more information visit http://www.biovigilsystems.com
About 21st Century Health
21st Century Health is an award winning targeted business show that is independently produced by Multi-Media Productions. The show provides its business viewers an in depth opportunity to find solutions to the industry problems from some of the top business leaders from across the world. Each exclusive segment is taped in our state of the art South Florida Studio
Once selected, companies are able to present their story and solutions to industry problems in an exclusive way that sets their company apart from the others. With more than 6,000 companies participating on over 600 shows, 21st Century Health continues to be the premier and targeted outlet for the latest business stories.
21st Century Health airs on various national cable networks that are viewed by over 100 million viewers nationwide as well as internationally via DirecTV and Dish Network. The 21CHTV Series is also available at more than 27 prestigious college universities, including Carnegie Mellon University, Howard University, Dartmouth College and Georgetown University.
For specific market-by-market air dates and times, please e-mail Moniqueh@mmpusa.com. For more information, please visit http://www.21chtv.com.
MultiMedia Productions
Gila Stern
561-988-9449 x269
gstern@mmpusa.com
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