MOVING ANNOUNCEMENT
We have moved our hand hygiene blog to another location. Our new site will give the chance to comment our posts and search older posts easier. We hope that these changes will bring us closer.
TODAY: Global Handwashing Day
2014.10.15.
Global Handwashing Day is a way to support a global and local culture of handwashing with soap, shine a spotlight on the state of handwashing in each country, and raise awareness about the benefits of handwashing with soap.
Doctors not making the grade in hand washing
2014.10.13.
A report released Wednesday by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA), identifies how hygienic it’s doctors, nurses and health care aids hands are at Winnipeg hospitals (Canada). The monitoring system began in 2012, and overall numbers have increased from 54 per cent to 72 per cent.
Ebola screening start at 5 U.S. airports
2014.10.09.
The CDC and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs & Border Protection (CBP) this week will begin new layers of entry screening at five U.S. airports that receive over 94 percent of travelers from the Ebola-affected nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. New York’s JFK International Airport will begin the new screening on Saturday. In the 12 months ending July 2014, JFK received nearly half of travelers from the three West African nations. The enhanced entry screening at Washington-Dulles, Newark, Chicago-O’Hare, and Atlanta international airports will be implemented next week. CDC is sending additional staff to each of the five… Read more
Handwashing frequency collarets with the incidence of respiratory tract infection
2014.09.29.
Frequent handwashing is standard advice for avoidance of acute respiratory tract infections (ARIs), but the evidence for a preventive effect in a general community setting is sparse. Merk, et al. (2014) set out to quantify the possible protection against ARIs conferred by a person’s self-perceived handwashing frequency. Read more
Hand-in-Scan winner @ Dutch V4 Startup competition
2014.09.25.
We are proud to announce that Hand-in-Scan received the Best New Startup from Hungary award at the V4 Startup competition in the Netherlands today.
50 startups applied for the competition from the Visegrad Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), and one from each country received a prize. Hand-in-Scan was represented by Adrienn Ujfalusi, who received a vast majority of the jury’s votes. Read more
Healthcare workers wash hands more often when in presence of peers
2014.09.13.
Nationally, hand hygiene adherence by healthcare workers remains staggeringly low despite its critical importance in infection control. A study in the October issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology found that healthcare workers’ adherence to hand hygiene is better when other workers are nearby. Read more
The rapid spread of viruses in buildings
2014.09.10.
Using tracer viruses, researchers found that contamination of just a single doorknob or table top results in the spread of viruses throughout office buildings, hotels, and health care facilities. Read more
Wrapping tablets prevent cross-contamination
2014.09.05.
To prove effectiveness of wrapping tablet computers in order to reduce microbiological contamination, German researchers analyzed 115 patients during a period of 11 days in the University Hospital of Erlangen. Read more