Round-up: Tracking hospital hand washers

By: Brian Dolan | Mar 19, 2009        

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The University of Iowa announced that it has successfully piloted a low-cost, green technology for tracking hand hygiene at a hospital. The pilot used Zigbee technology, which is a low-power wireless technology, to track interaction between a small, page-like badge hospital staff carry and a hand hygiene dispenser located outside of patient rooms. Article

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center just greenlit a $2.5 million grant to create a entity tasked with supporting job creation by growing the state’s medical device and related technologies sector.

What’s behind the Kaiser-IBM deal?

Video: Not mHealth related but may have implications… interesting 3D user interface concept for mobile phones.

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  • http://mobihealthnews.com/9227/new-hand-hygiene-startup-spins-out-of-cimit/ New hand hygiene startup spins out of CIMIT | mobihealthnews

    [...] HanGenix has a handful of competitors, including Proventix Systems, which we wrote about earlier this year: In July, Proventix Systems announced a deal with machine-to-machine wireless vendor Synapse Wireless to add wireless connectivity to Proventix’s ZigBee-powered nGage system. Last spring, the University of Iowa was piloting a similar low-cost, ZigBee-enabled system. [...]