Hygienic Echo Inc. (HE) is a rapidly growing company with an innovative and informed approach to healthcare management and infection control that can significantly increase hand hygiene and infection control performance.

The Buddy Badge System^™

The Buddy Badge System^™ is both a technological innovation and a social innovation. Physically, the Buddy Badge is comprised of wearable badges, infrared zone markers, dispenser counters, and badge stations. The Buddy Badge discreetly prompts health care workers to perform hand hygiene when entering or leaving a patient room if they have not already done so. The Buddy Badge is focused on being a “buddy” to health care professionals. That means we are focused on solving problems for the staff as well as the hospital!

Advanced Technology Based on Science

Buddy Badge System^™ is based on more than seventeen years of scientific research and iterative clinical testing. It is designed to work with healthcare staff workflows and requires no IT changes or building modifications to install and use. Buddy Badge system^™ has been tested at five Toronto Rehab care units with results reported in 3 recently published peer-reviewed journal papers covering over 459,000 hand hygiene opportunities.

Licensing & Intellectual Property

The company has the exclusive and worldwide license to all intellectual property related to KITE-UHN’s Hand Hygiene Technology (i.e. Buddy Badge System). It has 8 granted patents.