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.
The World Hand Hygiene Day
2013.05.05.
Every year we dedicate special attention to hand hygiene education and awareness on the 5th of May (no wonder it is easy to remember, just count your fingers on both hands). The World Health Organization’s initiative reached far in the recent years, but still room for improvement in the western countries and the developing world too. You can read more on the program here: WHO “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” There are a couple of events going on around the globe, and we would like to draw your attention to a unique programme just about to start in Singapore: 6-10… Read more
The short story of Hand-in-Scan
2013.05.01.
While our genealogical tree cannot be traced back to Semmelweis, Hand-in-Scan has an interesting story so far. The Stery-Hand project (as it was called originally) started as a student assignment, managed and operated by young, enthusiastic graduates of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The team aimed from the very beginning to join the international fight against Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI). Having developed the first engineering prototype in late 2010, the team was desperately looking for funding to continue the development. The first external funding came from a student grant provided by the Singaporean government, and the 4 Hungarian teammates… Read more
The history of hand hygiene – a tribute to Semmelweis
2013.04.29.
We cannot ignore the fact that Austrian-Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis discovered the importance of hand hygiene in 1858, opening the era of infection control. Semmelweis demonstrated that puerperal fever (also known as childbed fever) was contagious and that this incidence could drastically be reduced by appropriate hand washing by medical care-givers. He made this discovery in 1847 while working in the Maternity Department of the Vienna Lying-in Hospital. His failure to convince his fellow doctors led to a tragic conclusion, however, he was ultimately vindicated and cleared of blame. While employed as assistant to the professor of the maternity clinic… Read more
Opening of the Hand-in-Scan Blog – Welcome message
2013.04.23.
Dear Visitors, Hand-in-Scan Blog is the newest manifestation of our commitment to “Crack-down on Healthcare-Associated Infections”. Our engineering team has long been shocked and puzzled by the global incompetence to effectively tackle nosocomial infections. In the past three years, we have devoted our knowledge to develop a system able to support the fight against HAI. We aim to join WHO and the major professional organizations (CDC, ECDC, APIC, ICPIC, etc.) in identifying and promoting best practices in infection control. This blog is a community effort to disseminate verified HAI preventions methods, ground-breaking scientific results and reports from the battlefield. Hope you will… Read more