Protecting Those Who Protected Us
Caring for the health of veterans who served our country is incredibly rewarding, but also challenging. With everything going on, hand hygiene opportunities can often be missed, impacting both patient and provider safety. The last thing anyone wants is to transmit a healthcare associated infection (HAI) to one of these honorable patients or their own family after a shift.
Since 2012, BioVigil's technology has reduced healthcare associated infections (HAI) through increased hand hygiene compliance and decreased cross-contamination. Our team, which includes several veterans, developed and delivers an integrated solution with real-time reminders, point of care behavior modification, patient engagement, accountability, and actionable data. This protects both patients and providers.
BioVigil goes beyond preventing the spread of infections. Our solution reduces staff absenteeism due to illness, provides an effective means of staff rounding and contact tracing, as well as gives your VA hospital a significant means of differentiation through your visible commitment to safety.
Staggering Stats
1.7 Million
healthcare associated infections reported annually
75,000
HAI-related deaths occur annually
Up to $50K
in costs per HAI incident
What is the BioVigil Solution?
BioVigil enables the management of hand hygiene compliance at hospital, department, and individual levels without changes to infrastructure, and is sanitizer product agnostic.
Our leading technology solution includes an alcohol vapor sensing badge to detect the use of hand sanitizer, sink sensors, and a robust data suite.
The green BioVigil hand made me feel safe. I couldn’t see if the workers cleaned their hands before coming in since the sanitizer was in the hallway. But the badge allowed me to know without a doubt they had clean hands.
Every time a nurse or doctor came into my room, I knew they had clean hands because I could see the green hand on the BioVigil badge. That made me feel safe because I knew for sure their hands were clean every single time.
I liked that the BioVigil badge allowed me to see the nurse and doctor’s hands were clean. I didn’t have to worry about them spreading anything to me from another patient.
An organizational culture focused on patient safety has been critical to our team’s success. Our entire enterprise—from frontline staff to executive leadership—has embraced BioVigil Program, recognizing innovation as key to building on that culture and improving patient care.
Our facility is on a path to transform healthcare. Biovigil is one of the tools we have adopted that will help us to create a successful future and bring the highest standards of care to our patients.
Consistent hand hygiene is the single most powerful method to prevent transmission of disease, and our commitment to patient safety and quality-of-care is at the forefront of why we have implemented the BioVigil system.
We anticipate a decline in HAIs as the compliance rate of hand hygiene increases. Working towards clean hands at the point of patient care every day and sustaining this practice is a vital part of the patient safety culture change, and key focus of health care policy. It (BioVigil) is a simple, yet critical intervention to keep our patients safe.
We have a no tolerance policy, and this is a patient safety initiative. If they do not wear their badge, they are not allowed to work in the patient care areas.
Infection prevention is something that everyone in healthcare needs to promote, and hand hygiene is the most basic and effective measure. The BioVigil system instills confidence in patients and their family members that their caregiver is taking the proper precautions to prevent the spread and transmission of infections.
The real bonus is the visual reminder of lighted red, yellow and green hands that remind everyone that we are doing all we can to provide a safe environment. The children love the colors and parents are reassured when we walk in the room that "green is clean".
It’s just astonishing knowing that we would get maybe 1,000 observations in a month- on a really good month- and now we average 25,000 observations a day. Being able to say we have that many and that we know we are over 95% complaint all of the time, and that we can actually prove it now, I think that’s been huge.
I appreciate the work the Hospital is doing to ensure that people wash their hands before they interact with patients. I feel that my mom is safer and more protected from infections in your hospital.
97% Hand Hygiene Compliance
Real time reminders that coach
behavior modification result in
significant improvements - doubling staff compliance and reducing cross-contamination by over 90%.
100+ Daily
Observations Per Bed
Gone are the days of inaccurate reporting due to small sample sizes skewed by the Hawthorne Effect. You can now exceed Leapfrog requirements and boost your grade.
Reduce HAIs by
up to 83%
The reduction in HAI's not only saves lives, but benefits your hospital's reputation and bottom line. BioVigil
often pays for itself by reducing
HAI-related costs.
Real Time Data Capture
Our data suite provides actionable insights not only for hand hygiene performance, but staff rounding, contract tracing, and more.
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Our team would appreciate the opportunity to walk you through our hand hygiene solution
and have a discussion about how it could help your children's hospital.
