Press Releases from OPHARDT hygiene (10 total)
Infections reduced by 28 percent, quality of hand hygiene greatly improved: The …
Issum, February 16th. How can electronically controlled hand hygiene monitoring help to improve treatment quality in daily hospital life? The BDH-hospital in Greifswald, Germany, (http://bdh-klinik-greifswald.de) has examined how the use of the OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring Systems® (OHMS) affects behaviour around hand hygiene and the number of nosocomial infections.
Over the period of one year (May 2013 - April 2014) the use of hand disinfectants, the number of nosocomial…
Cross-border cooperation to improve health and hygiene standards: OPHARDT hygien …
Development of pioneering solutions to prevent infections in schools and care institutions
Issum, December 19. The first kick-off meeting of health-i-care: innovations for safer healthcare took place at the end of November. In a framework of crossborder projects German and Dutch experts from industry, science and health industry are working together on the development of innovative solutions for infection prevention.
OPHARDT hygiene participates in this ambitious project as one of…
Hand hygiene feedback system improves the safety of premature babies
Issum/Rotterdam, October 6. A team of students from the University of Rotterdam have won the „Hogeschool Rotterdam Bachelor Award“for their project “Couveuse Stoplicht”. Under the leadership of Ronald van Gils MSc, Linda Wauben PhD and Onno Helder, PhD RN, the students won against 20 other submissions.
In an interdisciplinary project the students from the Electro-Technical, Industrial Product Design, Nursing, and Healthcare Technology faculties developed a hand hygiene feedback system to be…
First „Brain-Forum“: Networking event to promote infection prevention
Issum, June 16th. “Our heads are round so that our thinking can change directions.” With this motto, OPHARDT hygiene invited partners and customers to join the first BRAIN (Breaking the Chain of infection) forum in Issum on June 9th.
After the official opening of the Compliance Campus in October 2015, the BRAIN-Forum is the first of a series of events on a regular basis around the topic of infection prevention.…
Happy Birthday SanTRAL®: 25 years of quality and reliability in public washroom …
Stainless steel complete range meets the requirements for robust and sustainable solutions in public washrooms
Continuous development based on close dialogue with customers and users
Issum, February 26th. The success story of SanTRAL® began in 1991. The sturdy stainless steel series established itself wherever reliability and robustness are important - in catering establishments and hotels, in public and semipublic buildings, in stadiums, in train stations and airports, in schools or universities.
Today SanTRAL®…
World Hand Hygiene Day: OPHARDT hygiene supports “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands …
First German hospital with complete Hand Hygiene Monitoring in all patient areas
Issum, Germany, 5th of May. As member of the Private Organizations for Patient Safety (POPS), OPHARDT hygiene supports the WHO „Clean is Safer Care” program and the WHO global patient safety campaign “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” on 5th of May.
The 5th of May campaign reminds of the importance of appropriate hand hygiene in health care facilities: In Europe,…
ECCMID 2012: OPHARDT hygiene presents award winning Hand Hygiene Monitoring Syst …
London / Issum, April 4th, 2012. At the 22nd ECCMID in London, OPHARDT hygiene presented its award winning hand hygiene monitoring system “OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring System®” (OPHARDT HMS). The complete hardware and software solution helps hospitals to measure, analyze and sustainably improve hand hygiene compliance, thus reducing the number of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). Furthermore, the company shows its extended range of fixing solutions for the variable installation of disinfect dispensers…
Improving hand hygiene in hospital: OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring System® wins "Be …
Improving hand hygiene in hospital: OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring System® wins "Best Practices Award 2011"
Newly developed complete solution to improve hand hygiene compliance live at MEDICA 2011
Issum, 11. November 2011. The OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring System®, a complete hardware and software solution to measure and improve hand hygiene compliance, has been recognised with the prestigious Frost & Sullivan "Best Practices Award 2011".
In the course of an international study carried out…
Global Hand Washing Day: OPHARDT hygiene supports public schools and hospitals i …
Issum, October 13, 2011. „Making the world a more hygienic place“– with this motto, OPHARDT hygiene celebrates the “Global Hand Washing Day“ on October 15. Turning hand washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet into an ingrained habit could save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention. Therefore, this annual world-wide project focuses especially on children and how to improve their hand hygiene behaviour.
In…
ECCMID 2011: “Hygiene Compliance Solutions” introduced to improve hand hygie …
Milan / Issum, May 7th, 2011. Sustainably improving hand hygiene compliance in hospitals - with this goal, OPHARDT hygiene presents its new innovative system solution Hygiene Compliance Solutions (HCS) at the 21st ECCMID in Milan, Italy.
“The basic idea behind Hygiene Compliance Solutions is simple: We are not only offering single products, but a consistent concept to really support sustainable hand hygiene in daily practice”, explains Kristina Ophardt, Product…
