A recent scientific study examined how often passengers and crew on cruise ships wash or disinfect their hands – and whether current practices are...
Hand Hygiene on Cruise Ships: What a Recent Study Reveals
Electronic Monitoring is Shaping the Future of Hand Hygiene
Hand hygiene saves lives, the way hospitals track it hasn’t changed in decades. Many facilities still rely on short observational audits or rough...
Smart dispensers provide data on hand hygiene in General Practice Offices
As part of a comprehensive study in four Dutch general practice offices (GPO’s), digital hand sanitizer dispensers from OPHARDT Hygiene helped...
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Arguably the best-known hospital germ, MRSA continues to pose major challenges to healthcare systems worldwide and is a particular risk in immunodeficiency settings. A recent study looked at MRSA in nursing homes for the elderly. Thanks in part to...
Workloads in hospitals have been rising, to the detriment of hand hygiene, researchers find.
A large-scale study shows that just one in six necessary hand disinfection is carried out in long-term care facilities and nursing homes. In Germany alone, more than four million people are considered to be in need of long-term care, of whom about...
Next to western shore of Lake Ontario, in a region known for both its manufacturing and farming, OPHARDT Hygiene’s Canadian headquarters houses teams that design, engineer, and produce custom products for companies around the world. It is here that...
New laboratory results from OPHARDT Hygiene show which steps for cleaning soap and sanitizer dispenser pumps are most effective from a microbiological perspective. While the question of how to most effectively reprocess pumps comes up often, there...
Touchless hand disinfectant dispensers are becoming increasingly popular thanks to their many advantages. As more and more organizations switch to touch-free dispensers, battery life is a pressing question. How hand disinfections can occur before...
The pandemic has given hand hygiene a whole new level of importance, especially in the workplace. Even though working from home has become more common, offices remain high-traffic areas where many people spend many hours per day. Almost all office...
What is monkeypox? How is it transmitted? How can you protect yourself? Cases of monkeypox have been occurring in Germany and many other countries since May 2022. Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox disease is mild in most people...
Dr. Andreas Glöckner has been employed by OPHARDT Hygiene as Medical Director since August 2017. Thanks to more than 25 years of experience as a specialist for Internal Medicine and as an infection and intensive care specialist he knows too well the...
Improving hand hygiene compliance poses major challenges. Researchers at the University Hospital in Geneva have investigated a new type of intervention: using different disinfectants at the same time. There are many different hand sanitizers on the...