People’s vast efforts to maintain good hand hygiene are being negated by their mobile device usage. This is of great concern to those in the healthcare industry but should be of concern to all. The ElectroClave is a new product designed not only to disinfect mobile devices using high tech UV technology but to also keep track of an entire organization’s disinfection habits. It is the most comprehensive solution out there today.
Good hand hygiene is paramount to not getting sick. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 80% of infections are transmitted through hands. However, mobile devices have certainly disrupted the effectiveness of people’s handwashing routines. Previously, if you washed your hands frequently you were doing a fairly adequate amount to prevent sickness. But with people touching their phones to the point where they’ve basically become an extension of our hands, these new factors need to be accounted for.
There is a new device from Seal Shield called the ElectroClave that has provided the most comprehensive mobile device disinfection solution out there today. It is the only product that can provide a full 360-degree disinfection of your mobile device and it does so in a capacity that can eliminate 99.9999% of bacteria on your mobile device in only a couple of minutes. It achieves this by utilizing filtration media to prevent dust and particulates from entering the bays in order to maximize efficacy by eliminating shadowing. Additionally, the disinfection bays are constructed of quartz to ensure the shelf the mobile device is placed on isn’t shielding any of the UV-C light.
Now this is great, but far too many of us have bought a StairMaster for Christmas only to stop using by February. And if a small amount of unhygienic people can disrupt all of an organization’s efforts to maintain good hand hygiene, then measures have to be taken to ensure the device is actually being used. With the ElectroClave, you don’t have to worry about this. It actually keeps track of everyone’s mobile devices and can take into account when each person has last disinfected their phone or tablet, even going so far as sending email or text message reminders that their phone is due for a disinfection cycle. An organization can easily see who’s disinfecting their phone and when and can make sure that everybody is following proper protocol.
For those who have security concerns about such a device, the ElectroClave is essentially a bank vault that also disinfects your phone. Its premium security features allow for secure non-touch access with NFC employee badges and tracking of every time the box was opened as well as who opened it.RFID tracking also allows for you to be able where your phone or tablet is at all times. To put it simply, your property will be safe.
In healthcare, this advanced form of disinfection can be a total game-changer. Hospitals have a serious problem when it comes to preventing infections. It’s bad enough that people are touching their dirty mobile devices and undoing massive efforts to maintain a clean work environment for both the people who work there and the patients. But to have people who are coming in contact with infectious diseases then spreading them through their mobile devices is a total nightmare.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1.7 million people a year are developing healthcare-acquired infections, leading to almost 100,000 annual deaths. The cost of this to hospitals is in the tens of billions. This is not just a petty issue, it’s a crisis. The ElectroClave was developed with an advisory council made of members from key organizations like Johns Hopkins, Yale New Haven and the H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center so that it could be a solution that specifically fits healthcare’s more extensive infection prevention needs.
However, healthcare isn’t the only industry that needs to worry about hand hygiene. And they’re certainly not the only industry that has been affected by the prevalence of mobile devices. Popular chain restaurants have adopted touch screens as a way to reduce labor costs and improve efficiency. Not to mention virtually every single person that is touching food also owns a mobile device that they are likely touching every so often.
Dr. Paul Matewele, a senior lecturer in microbiology at London Metropolitan University had to say on the matter “We were all surprised how much gut and fecal bacteria there was on the [restaurant] touchscreen machines. These cause the kind of infections that people pick up in hospitals. For instance, Enterococcus faecalis is part of the flora of gastrointestinal tracts of healthy humans and other mammals. It is notorious in hospitals for causing hospital-acquired infections.”
This is particularly alarming considering that it’s the food industry, but really every industry that uses mobile devices, particularly ones that are shared between multiple people need to make hand hygiene a priority. Each organization has its own needs and specific solutions that are better suited to tackle them. The ElectroClave UV disinfection box can be an effective solution for many and is worth looking into.
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