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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Contact tracing is a key strategy to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. But for a virus with high transmission rates and large numbers of asymptomatic carriers, traditional methods can fall short.
That was the case at Methodist Hospital of Southern California, according to Dr. Bala Chandrasekhar, the chief medical officer at Methodist.
The 348-bed hospital had experience with contact tracing before the pandemic, but it was a manual process that could take up to two weeks to get infection information.
When the pandemic hit, that response time only got worse. Notifying people was late, the information was based on memory so it was incomplete and very unsatisfying, Chandrasekhar said. And with COVID, there are quite a number of people who are asymptomatic carriers, so by the time you got all this information, you could be carrying it to other healthcare workers, to other doctors and to your family.
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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