SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MONITORING HAND SANITIZING OPPORTUNITIES IN HOSPITAL WARDS

• US 20160125723A1
• Filed: 10/16/2015
• Published: 05/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: I-Healthsys Produtos Medicos Ltda - ME, Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Hospital Albert Einstein
• Original Assignee: I-Healthsys Produtos Medicos Ltda - ME, Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Hospital Albert Einstein
• Inventors: Marra, Alexandre Rodrigues, Monte, Julio Cesar Martin, Prado, Marcelo, Ishibe, Eder Issao, Santini, Tales Roberto de Souza, Zanon, Caio Moraes, Costa, Felipe Kermentz Ferraz, Gagliardi, Guilherme Machado, Junior, Renaldo Massini
• Granted Patent: US 9,679,464 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/245 Reminder of hygiene compliance policies, e.g. of washing hands

Abstract

A system for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards (1), the system (1) comprising a plurality of sensors (8, 9, 10) arranged inside a ward (2), capable of detecting at least one hand sanitizing action according to a set of hand sanitizing opportunities, the system (1) further comprising at least one indication device (7) of the hand sanitizing action related to the set of hand sanitizing opportunities.

The present invention further relates to a method of monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in wards.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards, the system comprising a plurality of sensors arranged inside a ward, capable of detecting at least one hand sanitizing action according to a set of hand sanitizing opportunities,

the system further comprises at least one indication device for indicating the hand sanitizing action relating to the set of hand sanitizing opportunities.

2. The system according to claim 1, comprising at least one actuation sensor of a dosing device for dosing aseptic substance, the system further comprising:

at least one infrared sensor capable of detecting at least one heat emitting zone in the ward,

the infrared sensor being further configured to receive at least one data of use from the dosing device and compare such data of use with the heat emitting zone detected.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the infrared sensor is arranged in an envelope, the envelope further comprising a radiofrequency module.

4. The system according to claim 3, further comprising at least one movement sensor configured to detect handling of at least one invasive device,

the invasive device is further configured to receive data of use from the dosing device and compare such data of use with the handling of the invasive device.

5. The system according to claim 4, comparing the handling of the invasive device with the heat emitting zone detected by the infrared sensor to detect the hand sanitizing action according to the set of hand sanitizing opportunities.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the invasive device is capable of further receiving the data of use from the dosing device.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the indication device is configured so as to receive the data of use from the dosing device.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the indication device further comprises a radiofrequency module.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the data of use from the dosing device are transmitted via radiofrequency to the indication device for indicating the occurrence of the hand sanitizing action.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein identifying a health professional who has performed the hand sanitizing action.

11. A method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards, the ward comprising at least one dosing device for dosing aseptic substance, the dosing device being capable of generating at least one data of use, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting the hand sanitizing action according to a set of hand sanitizing opportunities, and

indicating the occurrence of the hand sanitizing action on an indication device.

12. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards, further comprising the steps of:

establishing a minimum power threshold of the radiofrequency module of the dosing device.

13. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 12, further comprising the step of:

verifying whether there are signals from at least one identification device located within the minimum power threshold.

14. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 13, wherein regardless of the existence of signals from at least one identification device within the minimum power threshold, the method comprising the steps of:

sending the data of use from the dosing device to the indication device, and

storing the data of use in an internal memory of the dosing device.

15. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 14, further comprising the step of:

comparing the data of use from the dosing device with at least one heat emitting zone detected by at least one infrared sensor.

16. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 15, the method further comprising the step of:

comparing the data of use from the dosing device with the handling of an invasive device.

17. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 16, further comprising the step of:

comparing the handling of the invasive device with a heat emitting zone detected by the infrared sensor.

18. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 17, the method further comprising the steps of:

establishing a zone of capture of identification tag of the indication device, and

verifying whether data of use were received by the indication device when an identification device gets into the zone of capture of the identification tag.

19. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 18, wherein;

if the data of use are received by the indication device when the identification device gets into the zone of capture of the identification tad, the method comprises the step of processing a wait time if the indication device comes out of the zone of capture of the identification tag.

20. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 19, wherein:

after the processing of the wait time, the method comprises the step of verifying whether there is an indication device within the zone of capture of the identification tag.

21. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 20, the method comprising the step of:

establishing at least three objects of the hospital ward, the positions of which are previously known,

identifying a new object ion the ward, if the latter is not one of the three objects the positions of which are previously known,

associating the new object to an arbitrary name (A), and

establishing a registration number (#042) to the arbitrary name (A).

22. The method for monitoring the hand sanitizing opportunities in hospital wards according to claim 19, the method comprising the step of:

Identifying a health professional that has performed the hand sanitizing action.