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.
