Capital Health Partners With Swipesense To Further Its Commitment To Patient Safety And Infection Prevention
Top regional health system to implement industry s leading patient safety platform, citing dedication to its community and becoming a high reliability healthcare organization
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Capital Health, a regional leader in providing progressive, quality patient care, has selected
SwipeSense as its safety technology platform to prevent hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), and avoid preventable harm, such as patient falls, by ensuring consistent and safe care delivery. To tackle these issues, Capital Health will implement SwipeSense s Hand Hygiene and Nursing Insights applications system-wide in its two New Jersey hospitals.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened healthcare consumers concerns about receiving care in a hospital system, according to a new survey conducted by
SwipeSense, the industry s leading patient safety platform. The survey found that 73% of consumers feel concerned or extremely concerned about hospital safety, which represents a 46% increase in their level of concern since the onset of COVID-19.
Even more significantly, the survey found that healthcare consumers overwhelmingly feel that the use of technology to support patient safety initiatives would increase how safe they feel receiving care – with 83% reporting they would feel safer with contact tracing technology in place. Despite this strong patient preference, many hospitals still rely on manual contact tracing for COVID-19 and other infectious outbreaks. But these antiquated methods to determine exposure are time-consuming, often unreliable, and l