The University of Iowa has developed iScrub Lite
1.5 for iPhone and iTouch. iScrub provides realtime
feedback on hand hygiene compliance, thus eliminating cumbersome clipboards and transcription. Observers can quickly capture information about hand hygiene opportunities. A pilot study has shown that iScrub improved hand hygiene compliance from 62% to 76% in a 34-week study.The Versus Technology requires the health care worker to wear a small IR-RFID badge. Real-time hand hygiene compliance can be monitored for
each health care worker: it 1) determines exactly
how often hand washing was done and 2) determines
the time between hand washing and patient care. In addition, the Versus Technology can analyze the movement of health care workers in the facility and track potential contagion pathways.