Webinar Request - Infection Control for the Healthcare Enterprise
The webinar explains how using RTLS for infection control in healthcare settings can improve hand hygiene compliance, enable comprehensive contact tracing of patients, staff, and assets, automate environmental controls to reduce airborne infections, manage surgical trays and medical scopes through their lifecycle, and ensure adherence to CDC infection control guidelines.
By viewing this webinar, you will learn how Infection Control utilizing RTLS can help to:
- Encourage hand hygiene compliance
- Track patient, staff, and asset interactions for complete contact tracing
- Automate environmental conditions to reduce airborne infections
- Manage surgical trays and medical scopes throughout their usage, cleaning, and storage life cycles
- Meet CDC infection control recommendations
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Location-Based Tech Solutions Increase Patient Safety
Location-based technology solutions, such as hand-hygiene compliance monitoring and asset tracking, can significantly reduce healthcare-associated infections like CLABSI, CAUTI, and VAP, which together represent some of the most common, costly, yet preventable hospital-acquired infections affecting hundreds of thousands of patients annually and costing billions to the US healthcare system.
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CenTrak Responds to Healthcare Concerns
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