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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As we enter the age of data, intelligent dispenser systems are beginning to dip into the mainstream of hand hygiene “What you can’t measure, you can’t control,” is a well-known quote from Peter Drucker, an economist and...
We take a look at levels of noise in healthcare environments and the effect that this has on patients and staff
A recent survey reveals hygiene gaps in the cleaning of dispensers in hospitals, but good alternatives do exist. Thorough hand hygiene is essential for comprehensive patient safety, as people are increasingly paying attention to hygiene standards...
In Germany, 70,000 people die from septic syndrome every year – a condition which is brought about when the body is unable to effectively combat a systemic infection. On September 13, World Sepsis Day aims to raise awareness about the dangers...
Scientists at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) investigated a behavioural approach to improve compliance. Right in the middle: the OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring System. Hospital-acquired infections are an undesirable and increasingly...
It’s summer, it’s warm! Nothing seems to be further away than the annoying cold season endured over the autumn and winter. Yet the waiting rooms of pediatricians’ offices are still full. Why are the offices still full in the summer, and...
The training centre for hand hygiene was the ideal venue for the lecture “Hygiene in Biology”. Thorough hand hygiene is widely regarded as the simplest, most effective measure in preventing the spread of infection. As the threat of multi...
Is the rise of allergies in developed societies correlated to hygiene? That was the idea behind the now famous hygiene hypothesis posited by epidemiologist David Strachan in 1989. Strachan had noticed that in a survey of 17,000 British children...
Whenever we go to a restaurant, we assume that those handling food products also employ proper hand hygiene techniques. In any food environment, cooks or food processors encounter raw foods and perishable ingredients that can easily spread...
Nearly all healthcare professionals in the modern era come into regular contact with alcohol-based hand sanitizers as part of their hand hygiene program. In some instances, these liquids are atomized through the integration of spray pumps in a...