The wearable badge enables us to provide 3 important and very effective capabilities: The badge provides discrete reminders to the wearer when an opportunity for hand hygiene has been missed so that this omission can be corrected immediately. Getting a memo at some future date about the need to increase group compliance is obviously not as effective as an immediate personalized prompt, The badge enables the system to recognize and reward high achievers. Let me give another example of why a badge is essential. Suppose the compliance entering a room is 90%. There is a big difference between 10 caregivers scoring 90% each and 9 scoring 100% with one scoring 0% who moved from room to room with little or no hand hygiene. So the risk to the patient is likely much higher with the second scenario even though the group compliance is the same with both scenarios.

Buddy Badge uses near-visible (infrared) light to communicate with the zone markers that tell it where it is and with the dispenser counters that tell it when soap or hand sanitizer are used. Buddy Badge has its own miniature computer onboard to control prompting and data recording.

They work with all types of wall or floor-stand dispensers.

The system issues a Buddy Badge each time staff show the kiosk scanner their QR code. The number of badges needed is equal to the maximum number of users of the system anticipated at any time.

Individual users can view their own performance on any device with internet access. Staff, such as managers and IPAC staff, can be authorized to view data from all staff individually and in aggregate. There is a wide range of reports that are optionally available. It is even possible to watch an animation of workers moving around showing when HH was performed during a selected period of time.

The Buddy Badge Hero Award Program calculates a winner every night for each nursing unit and automatically sends a congratulatory email with a gift card attached. The names of winners are also automatically displayed on the kiosk unless anonymous. The Buddy Badge Hero Reward Program is optional at the discretion of the client institution

When the Buddy Badge is returned to the recharging station at the kiosk the data is automatically uploaded to the secure database in the cloud. Individual users can view their own performance on any mobile device. Staff, such as managers and IPAC staff, can be authorized to view data from all staff individually and in aggregate. There is a wide range of reports that are optionally available. It is even possible to watch an animation of workers moving around showing when HH was performed during a selected period of time.

It catches virtually all of them

If the individual is going to exit a room carrying clean objects then s/he can simply perform hand hygiene before picking up the objects. The Buddy Badge will glow green for one minute during which the room can be exited without scoring a missed opportunity. If a contaminated object is to be taken out of the room then the Buddy Badge will issue an exit prompt but the missed opportunity will not be scored if the individual goes straight to the dirty utility room and performs hand hygiene on exiting that utility room.

Yes, the system does measure the number of times soap and sanitizer are dispensed.

Buddy Badge has a capability called ‘interval prompting’. The customer can ask for this to be implemented in any common space. The Buddy Badge will prompt on entry and exit from this space in the usual way. It also has an internal timer that will prompt at a fixed time interval so that the individual does not go without performing hand hygiene at least once in this interval. Each time hand hygiene is performed the timer is automatically reset to the interval set by IPAC.