In healthcare, infection prevention is still the elusive holy grail — but an infection prevention app suite is helping to prevent infection-related deaths.
Every year, over 4 million people in Europe get a healthcare associated infection — with 37,000 dying as a result. Effective cleaning of healthcare environments is critical to protect patients, visitors and staff and to halt the emergence of superbugs.
Thankfully, many hospitals and other healthcare providers have been using special training apps to educate employees on best practices for infection prevention.
One of the biggest names in infection control is the UK’s GAMA Healthcare, which has been perfecting its infection prevention app suite for 15 years. Besides offering all kinds of sanitation products, GAMA’s Clinell division offers an employee training package that includes an Android tablet, training materials, and a suite of Android apps.
Clinell says it developed the mobile training package in conjunction with some of the country’s top infection prevention and control (IPC) specialists. The training package aims to better educate and equip IPC professionals in the fight against healthcare associated infections.
Evaluclean cleanliness assessment app
The main application in the Clinell Training Package is called Evaluclean, which was specifically created for evaluating environmental cleanliness using tablets. With the Evaluclean app, you can mark clinical surfaces with the included fluorescent markers. Marks are invisible until illuminated with a UV torch that’s also included. You can wait for normal environmental cleaning to take place, and then record all visible marks in the app.
Clinell says that a fluorescent marker mimics the microbiological data more accurately than other systems like ATP bioluminescence, and the company’s many tests of the UV marker system in an ICU resulted in 40% more surfaces being cleaned.
The Evaluclean app is completely customisable so that healthcare organisations of any size and structure can audit their cleaning effectiveness at a micro or macro scale. The app can produce detailed reports with easily readable data, which helps you or your managers with making informed policy and training decisions.
Commode Audit app
The second major app in the suite is the Clinell Commode Audit Tool, which aims to ensure that toilets and related areas are properly sterilized at all times. Faeco-oral transmission is responsible for several significant healthcare associated infections, including Clostridium difficile.
The Commode Audit Tool app provides you or your IPC staff with visual instructions for decontamination, and you can generate reports by ward or by commode.
AskMe survey app
Another app in the suite is called AskMe, which is a survey app that lets you assess your staff’s perceptions and competencies about infection prevention and control.
The aim of AskMe and the other apps in the suite is to help you make smarter purchasing decisions and identify areas in your organisation that may need further training.
IPC training app, tools & games
Clinell’s infection prevention app suite also includes a training app that lets you create training presentations in just minutes. You can use the app’s pre-populated slides that cover a range of topics, and you can easily supplement those with best practice videos that are also included.
To liven up your training sessions, you can also include educational games. Clinell’s games teach everything from proper wiping technique to recognition of key, high-touch points in an interactive, fun manner.
Clinell says that all of its training content is based on the most up-to-date evidence, which in the app is hyperlinked to relevant studies. Training content is also detailed and appraised in an accompanying booklet called “Protecting the Patient”.
Infection prevention app suite benefits & links
By now you’ve probably figured out that an infection prevention training package is a smart investment — it allows infection prevention specialists to make smarter decisions, and frees them up to spend more time engaging with staff and advocating evidence-based policy. Most importantly, the Clinell Training Package helps ensure every patient gets safe, effective healthcare.
For more information on the infection prevention app suite, check out Clinell’s demo video here, then head to Clinell’s website for more details on the Training Package.
Based in the UK, Clinell is a consecutive Mobile Star Awards Winner. You can follow and connect with the company below:
2019 Mobile Star Awards Winner:
Mobile Healthcare Application — Clinell Training Package
Mobile Healthcare Innovation — Clinell Training Package
2017–2018 Mobile Star Awards Winner:
Mobile Healthcare Innovation — Clinell Training Package
Contact & Follow Clinell:
Clinell (GAMA Healthcare)
2 Regal Way, Watford,
Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, WD24 4YJ
Tel: (+44) 020 7993 0030
Clinell.com
Structure: Private company, established in 2004
OS Supported: Android
Blog: Clinell.com/blog
Facebook: /Clinell-668093796677806
Twitter: @Clinell
Contacts:
Suzie Hammouche, Admin. Director — s.hammouche [at] gamahealthcare.com
Natasha Sykes, Product Designer — n.sykes [at] gamahealthcare.com
