While in the past these efforts focused on protocols to prevent
the spread of antibiotic resistant bacterium, the COVID-19
outbreak throws a light on another, potentially more difficult
challenge: How to treat affected patients while preventing the
virus – to which no human has a natural immunity – from
overwhelming the hospital, its staff, patients and their families.
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This eBook outlines cost effective, quick-to-deploy
solutions developed by Microshare, Inc. and our
partners and in use in hospitals and other facilities
in the United States and UK. These IoT data
solutions have demonstrated an ability to curtail
infection risk through the deployment of sensors
that provide a predictive view into cleaning needs,
occupancy patterns, air and water quality and
more.
Even before the COVID-19 outbreak threatened to overwhelm
hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities with a novel and deadly
coronavirus, momentum had been building in the Healthcare Sector
to apply technology to the challenge of controlling Hospital
Associated Infections (HAI).