Title: RTLS-Based Hand Hygiene Monitoring and Notification System

Abstract:
Raising infection rates in healthcare are a global issue that causes unnecessary suffering and death cases. Literature highlights that one of the crucial factors that reduces those kinds of infections is better "hand hygiene". Due to the lack of automated systems that could help monitoring hand hygiene compliance and reporting on collected data, some hospitals use direct observations, surveys, dispensers usage measurements and other such methods to monitor the compliance of care providers. Our proposed system takes advantage of emerging infrastructure in hospitals, and in particular of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) and intelligent soap dispensers. We expect our RTLS-based approach to not only replace the current methods, but also to enable interactions with care providers by notifying them when they do not perform expected hand hygiene actions while performing care processes.