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Infection risk reductionin hospitals and healthcare: Meeting today’s urgent demand

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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. 1 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).

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