As in every French hospital, the staff at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Hopital Nord in Marseille must follow simple hygiene procedures like disinfecting hands.
However, sometimes people forget.
At this hospital cleaning methods are tracked by a system called Medi-HandTrace.
Professor Philippe Brouqui, head of the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, has been testing the device since 2013.
It tracks each staff member using a chip inserted into their shoe. It then records when, where and how many times they wash their hands.
Professor Philippe Brouqui, of the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Marseille’s North Hospital said: “So here, I’m standing on the antenna. You cannot see it because it’s inserted in the ground, it registers my shoes via the chip that has may name, because the system recognises my shoes. I’m now going to use some hyrdo-alcohol solution, it sends a signal to the antenna and registers it.”
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