CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal and its Connected Health Incubator, OROT, are proud to announce their partnership with Nosotech, a Quebec-based company specializing in the development and implementation of infectious disease prevention, antibiotic governance and epidemiology software.
Hand hygiene (HH) among healthcare workers is the most important preventive measure for limiting infections among patients and stemming the spread of infections in hospitals. Every facility must measure its hand hygiene compliance rate. The methods currently used to measure this rate are laborious and have many limitations. To overcome these challenges, CIUSSS has equipped itself with an automated hand hygiene monitoring system in one of its units. However, data analysis on this system remains rudimentary with a “PULL” architecture, meaning that a person has to make a query to obtain and analyze the data.
Under the clinical leadership of Dr. Yves Longtin, CIUSSS CCOMTL and OROT have teamed up with Nosotech to co-develop a new real-time handwashing compliance monitoring tool based on artificial intelligence. The co-creation project will include the development of algorithms that will be integrated into the tool, enabling the automatic detection of significant HH compliance anomalies. The tool will adopt a “PUSH” approach and inform users in real time, enabling HH deficiencies to be rapidly corrected.
The partnership is supported by the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Energie (MEIE) via its Réseau d’Évaluation et d’Innovation en Santé (REIS) mechanism, and the Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation via the Fonds régions et ruralité.
