HAND HYGIENE COMPLIANCE SYSTEM

• US 20130033376A1
• Filed: 08/06/2012
• Published: 02/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
• Original Assignee: Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
• Inventors: SEYED MOMEN, Kaveh, FERNIE, Geoffrey Roy, LEVCHENKO, Oleksandr Igorovich, HUFTON, Graham Clive
• Application Number:
  US13/567,218
• Publication Number:
  US 20130033376A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.11
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/1217 Electrical control means for the dispensing mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 1/7034 Mounting or deployment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2201/01 adapted for specific applications or environments
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/245 Reminder of hygiene compliance policies, e.g. of washing hands
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

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.

Claims

1. A wearable monitoring unit comprising:

a. a data transfer portion operable for receiving sensory data reporting a hygiene event from a hygiene detector, and zone data from a zone beacon, the zone data including zone location data and/or zone type data;

b. a memory portion including;

i. a first memory segment to store the sensory data;

ii. a second memory segment to store a group of hygiene status subroutines, each according to a corresponding infection risk level;

c. a processor module configured to;

1. receive at least one zone data message from the zone beacon;

2. decode the zone data message to identify a zone location data portion and/or the zone type data portion;

3. select a hygiene status subroutine according to a zone type data portion and the infection risk level, or a correlation there between;

4. execute the selected hygiene status subroutine.

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