iPhone app attempts to streamline hand hygiene tracking
Briefings on Infection Control, July 1, 2010
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New technology could replace the traditional pencil and paper method
If you have an iPhone? or an iPod touch?, you?ve probably already downloaded a number of applications that make everyday tasks?such as opening the trunk of your car or turning off your lights?as simple as touching a screen.
But for those of you with iPhones in the medical setting, a newly released app will streamline hand hygiene compliance tracking, one of the more time-intensive duties of a hospital IP.
The appropriately named ?iScrub? app, developed at the University of Iowa (UI), aims to replace the traditional method of pencil and paper tracking, providing more accurate data and a less time-consuming collection process.
The iScrub app was released on May 5 in collaboration with the CDC, and coinciding with the World Health Organization?s (WHO) ?5 Moments for Hand Hygiene? campaign.
?The long-term goal of our research is to understand hand hygiene behavior and use the feedback to help improve rates. This app can help standardize and streamline how observations are recorded,? Philip Polgreen, MD, one of the application?s developers and an assistant professor of internal medicine at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, said in a press release.
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