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Hand in Scan

Managing infection control through hand hygiene

In partnership with HandInScan

HandInScan is a Hungarian health-tech company focusing on the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAI), control of outbreaks and biological contamination. HandInScan provides technology-based, quality assured hand hygiene education and control – leading to a safer and more efficient operation in areas such as healthcare, food industry, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

Why HandInScan?

  • Everybody can be affected by healthcare-associated infections (HAI)
  • 7% chance of contracting HAI even in high-class hospitals
  • Proper hand hygiene eliminates at least 30% of HAI
  • An average European hospital suffers a €300 000 loss in annual direct costs due to preventable HAI
  • MRSA infections cost $5 500/incident to an average US hospital

An infection control solution that's easy to integrate...

  • It gives immediate, objective feedback on hand hygiene competence
  • It is an easy to use, interactive tool that facilitates self-learning
  • It is easy to set up and integrate into daily life
  • It identifies health workers through RFID cards or barcodes
  • It produces scans that feed across to the software in real-time
  • Collect data on health workers’ hand hygiene status and progress
  • Monitor hand hygiene status & progress by occupation, age, department
  • Generate reports for quality management purposes and for audits
  • Help manage risks and support outbreak management by filtering and analysing the available data

Makes training more effective

Creates positive behavioural change

The Semmelweis scanner is a unique tool for continuous monitoring of hand hygiene providing objective feedback of personal results to improve skills and techniques in hand hygiene practice.

Create Automated Quality Checkpoints for objective and simple hand hygiene controls for the infection control team to maintain high standards across the organisation.

Empowers your patients and visitors with hand hygiene knowledge

Visitors can bring germs to hospitals and usually do not have any hand hygiene training. The Semmelweis Scanner can educate the correct hand hygiene practice to visitors without involving hospital human resources. It can be customised to be used by professionals and laymen alike.

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