EHCO is made up of the following eight companies: Airista, BioVigil, CenTrak, Clean Hands-Safe Hands, DebMed, Hill-Rom, Inc., SwipeSense and Versus Technology.
Goals of the new alliance include altering current the hand hygiene measurement policy and guidelines for accreditation organizations, government agencies, health insurers and hospitals.
“We have come together with a common goal, to lead the change in how hospitals measure this key performance indicator of patient safety and quality,” said the new chairman of EHCO, Paul Alper. “Just as every other area of healthcare is adopting advanced technologies for improved efficiencies and care, there is now innovative technology to help drive true improvement in hand hygiene compliance that is linked to the reduction of avoidable infections and their associated costs.”
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