Hand Hygiene Compliance
Hand hygiene is the single most important action to prevent healthcare-associated infections, yet it remains one of the hardest to monitor accurately.
- Manual audits are cumbersome and infrequent.
- Automating audits can automate promotion of a safety culture.
SonitorONE with ONE Hygiene changes that. It delivers automated, high-precision hand hygiene compliance tracking that’s trusted by infection prevention teams and scalable across the enterprise.
What’s at Stake
How SonitorONE Solves It
Automated precision
When a caregiver performs hand hygiene, the dispenser sends a low-frequency signal that is received by SonitorONE Badges.
Verified location and user identity
The badge also gathers accurate location data, allowing the system to confirm exactly who cleaned their hands, when, and where. This ensures true room-level accuracy that Bluteooth® Low Energy (“BLE”)-only systems cannot achieve.
Trusted, scalable data
ONE Hygiene automatically links these events with staff assignments and workflows. Infection prevention teams gain complete visibility and confidence in compliance data, with zero manual collection effort.
Seamless integration
Data flows directly into the ONE Hygiene application, the infection prevention dashboard for SonitorONE, and can be shared through open APIs with EHR, quality, and analytics systems.
How it Works
Dispenser sensors
Send a unique low frequency (LF) signal with each hand hygiene event.
SonitorONE badges
Receive both the dispenser’s LF signal and the ultrasound location signal from nearby ultraBeacons.
ultraBeacons
Provide precise room-level location data, capturing the encounter.
Together, this system automatically matches hand hygiene events to precise locations and caregivers, creating the most accurate and trusted compliance data available.
Powered by ONE Hygiene
ONE Hygiene provides configurable dashboards, compliance scorecards by building, area, and role, and automated notifications for performance tracking.
Hospitals who automate hand hygiene compliance report:
- Up to 80% time savings for infection prevention teams.
- 40% sustained compliance improvements.
- Higher Leapfrog and HCAHPS scores and improved staff satisfaction.
ONE Hygiene is the enterprise tool for infection prevention analytics.
Ready for What Comes Next
Automated hand hygiene is more than a compliance tool. It is the foundation for enterprise-grade infection prevention and a launch point for advanced, patient-centric automation.
By combining dispenser events, staff location, and workflow data, SonitorONE and ONE Hygiene help hospitals Orchestrate the Next Enterprise’s Safety Culture. The same data infrastructure that drives compliance also strengthens every other RTLS use case from staff safety to patient flow, thereby creating a more reliable, connected healthcare system.
