Category: Technology

A recently published paper (Nori et al., 2022) shines a light on the challenges endured by the infection prevention (IP) and antimicrobial...

A lack of real-time feedback and coaching about hand hygiene was one of the major barriers to hand hygiene compliance, according to...

Fall prevention is a vexing problem for virtually all hospitals and long-term care facilities. The high number and cost of patient falls...

In the aftermath of COVID-19, the threat of contagious infections is being taken very seriously, not only in healthcare environments but in...

Hospitals have been making progress in fall prevention, but the most recent data still show a significant problem that increases both mortality...

Recently published studies continue to provide evidence demonstrating that electronic hand hygiene monitoring can improve hand hygiene compliance, reduce healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs),...

Technology in the healthcare workplace can evoke passionate responses from managers and staff, both positive and negative. Any individual response generally depends...

Believe it or not, the answer to the question this article’s headline poses has been debated for at least the past 20...

The Magnet Model is the next generation Magnet Recognition Program from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). While providing a framework for...

During a recent work group meeting with a hospital client, Vitalacy reviewed a month’s worth of data gathered by dispenser sensor tags...