HAND HYGIENE COMPLIANCE SYSTEM
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Abstract
A system and method of encouraging compliance of hand hygiene in an environment where users move from zone to zone and are required to perform hand hygiene between the zones. Users carry a wearable zone sensor which detects zones, detects hand hygiene actions, logs time of changing zones, and hand hygiene actions. The wearable sensor can be integral with a wearable hand hygiene product dispenser and/or can operate in cooperation with a fixed dispenser configured to transmit hand hygiene actions to the wearable zone sensor. The wearable zone sensors are configured to be useable anonymously or to be associated with a user identifier, and to interface with a central computer via a docking station or communication interface to transfer data for later analysis.
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39 Claims
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1-17. -17. (canceled)
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18. A system for monitoring hand hygiene among a number of human attendants in a facility, comprising:
a. a number of wearable monitor units, each monitoring unit to be worn by one attendant, and each including; i. a data transfer portion operable in a first phase for receiving sensory data reporting a hygiene event, sensory data of one or more descriptors of activity of the attendant wearing the monitoring unit, zone data, the zone data including zone location data and/or zone type data, the data transfer portion operable in a second phase for transferring user identity data and/or activity history data between the monitoring unit and an external station; ii. a memory portion configured to; 1. store a plurality of feature space data structures, each for a predicted attendant activity; 2. store a list of hygiene status subroutines, each according to a corresponding infection risk level; and 3. the activity history data; iii. a monitor processor module configured to; 1. receive the sensory data to generate at least one current activity feature data set for a current attendant activity, 2. associate the current activity feature data set with the feature space data structures to generate a correlation between the feature data set and one of the feature space data structures; 3. select an infection risk level according to the correlation; 4. select a hygiene status subroutine from the list of hygiene status subroutines according to the infection risk level; and 5. execute the selected hygiene status subroutine. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39-78. -78. (canceled)
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