Healthcare organizations have been promoting hand hygiene as a critical weapon against infections for decades, yet compliance rates have remained lower than desired. At the same time, some healthcare ...

Hand hygiene compliance rates remain generally low despite the well-documented connection between improper hand hygiene and healthcare-associated infections — but there are many varied reasons ...

Memorial Healthcare budgets to implement Intelligent Observations' sensor-driven approach systemwide. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, a small but growing number of hospitals are investigating or ...

"Hand sanitizer is not an alternative to washing hands," behavior specialist Jaralee Metcalf said With flu season in full swing, two classroom educators wanted to show their students just how ...

Know the 5-step hand wash routine to follow. The doctor also shared how to increase awareness about hand hygiene in children.

To ward off everything from simple respiratory illnesses to the coronavirus, this hygiene basic is the key to keeping you healthy. Believe it or not, only 5 percent of people wash their hands in a way ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I offer straight talk on science, medicine, health and vaccines. Behavior change is hard. Most people haven’t been washing their ...

Way back in the early, whirlwind days of the pandemic, surfaces were the thing to worry about. The prevailing scientific wisdom was that the coronavirus spread mainly via large droplets, which fell ...

Kontakt.io is offering its hand hygiene solution with rewards offered for compliance so that healthcare workers treat handwashing similar to exercising with fitness trackers. Several hospitals are ...