RFID based hand hygiene compliance monitoring station

Author

Meydanci, M. Akif ; Adali, Caglar ; Ertas, Metin ; Dizbay, Murat ; Akan, A.

Author_Institution

Istanbul Teknokent, Istanbul Univ., Istanbul, Turkey

fYear

2013

fDate

Nov. 29 2013-Dec. 1 2013

Firstpage

573

Lastpage

576

Abstract

Hand hygiene (HH) compliance is known as the most significant factor to reduce the transmission of infection to patients in health care institutions. Thus, monitoring hand hygiene compliance has become an important tool to control the infection transmission. Most of the currently used HH monitoring devices and systems use battery powered badges or wristbands to control users. In this study, a user friendly, passive RF-ID based electronic system with monitoring capabilities was introduced. The system includes a wearable, passive RF-ID wristband, wall mounted dispenser and a software to measure the HH compliance rate. The technology laying behind the HH station is introduced and the advantages and drawbacks of the system is discussed.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; body sensor networks; computerised monitoring; diseases; health care; hospitals; hygiene; radiofrequency identification; HH compliance rate measurement software; HH monitoring device; HH monitoring system; HH station technology; RFID based hand hygiene compliance monitoring station; battery powered badges; battery powered wristbands; health care institution; infection transmission reduction; patient infection; user friendly passive RFID based electronic system; wall mounted dispenser; wearable passive RFID wristband; Databases; Hospitals; Monitoring; Motion measurement; Radiofrequency identification; User interfaces; Hand hygiene compliance; RF-ID; microcontrollers; wireless monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control System, Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Mindeb

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1506-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSCE.2013.6720030

Filename

6720030