A Comprehensive Hand Hygiene Monitoring and Management Solution
Align with Leapfrog Group best practices and three of the WHO’s Five Moments.
One Solution That Connects All Five Use Cases
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Capture every hand hygiene event automatically, with no manual recording or sampling gaps. Generate audit-ready compliance reports in minutes, backed by complete, defensible data.
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Detects when staff enter patient rooms without dispensing, and prompts them to sanitize before care begins.
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Reconstruct interactions and infection pathways through historical location data.
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Encourage compliance and improvement through departmental races, win streaks, milestones, and rewards, all delivered via KIO Nurse and manager dashboards.
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Real-time status on every dispenser — battery, soap/sanitizer level, errors — with alerts for low refills. Works with any dispenser, any brand (ES8, ES10, manual/pump). An empty dispenser is a guaranteed missed wash; we make sure that never happens.
Get Accurate, Unbiased Hand Hygiene Data that Meets Leapfrog Requirements
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Go from Sampling to 100% Hand Hygiene Coverage
Reduce the time required for manual data entry and reporting with a digitized hand hygiene solution.
Gain visibility into real hand hygiene behavior
The presence of human observers introduces bias, influences clinicians (the Hawthorne effect), and can’t fully capture the true numbers. Automated monitoring is continuous, objective, and accurate, providing a comprehensive picture.
Pinpoint patterns and risks
Drill down to units, shifts, and individuals for granular data; use these insights to optimize hand hygiene and infection prevention by team, facility, and health system.
See Impact Across Your Hospital
Non-disruptive deployment
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Compatible with your existing dispensers; install and activate in seconds.
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Easily access data for auditing, contact tracing, and optimizing operations; cloud-based data storage scales rapidly and seamlessly across one hospital or one hundred.
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Support many healthcare operational use cases, including hand hygiene, staff safety, and patient flow, on a single badge.
Kontakt.io Hand Hygiene aligns with all five Leapfrog domains
| Features | What Leapfrog wants | How Kontakt delivers |
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| Monitoring | High volume of tracked opportunities per unit/month | Always-on automated capture logs every opportunity — clears the volume bar effortlessly where manual observation can't |
| Feedback | Compliance data shared with staff & leadership | Campus/unit/individual reporting, scheduled + on-demand reports, gamification as direct feedback to nurses |
| Infrastructure | Functional products at the point of care | Proactive dispenser management + universal dispenser compatibility + map view of dispenser locations |
| Culture | A facility-wide culture of hand hygiene | Gamification, real-time buzzer feedback, leadership visibility |
| Training & Education | Staff training | Training materials on how hand hygiene compliance is electronically monitored with Kio |
Built with compliance as priority
Reduce length of stay, keep staff and patients safe, and eliminate waste with Kontakt.io’s AI Care Operations platform—delivered as a managed service.
Leapfrog-aligned
Adheres to the industry-leading best practices and protocols outlined by the Leapfrog Group.
Built on CDC and WHO evidence-based guidelines
Using location data and wash-in and wash-out reminders, we capture key milestones from the WHO’s Five Moments of Hand Hygiene, namely: 1, before touching a patient; 4, after touching a patient; and 5, after touching patient surroundings.
Joint Commission-ready
Complies with regulations such as the Joint Commission’s NPSG.07.01.01
Bias-free data collection
Remove the issues of manual data collection, from small sample sizes to human biases; get an unvarnished, accurate look at hand hygiene posture.
FAQ
Join over 200K caregivers utilizing our Intelligent Orchestration solutions in hundreds of hospitals – from the nation’s largest networks to regional leaders.
Hand hygiene compliance monitoring is the process of tracking whether clinical staff sanitize their hands at the required moments during patient care, typically when entering and exiting a patient room. Automated systems like Kontakt.io’s replace manual audits and observation-based data collection with real-time detection and instant reporting. The result is higher data integrity, less administrative burden, and a clear picture of compliance across every department and floor.
According to the CDC, about 20% of hospital-acquired infections are linked to inadequate hand hygiene, making it one of the most preventable causes of patient harm. HAIs lead to serious health complications, prolonged stays, increased costs, and in the most severe cases, death. Consistent hand hygiene compliance is the single most effective infection prevention measure available to clinical teams.
The most effective way to improve hand hygiene compliance is to remove the reliance on manual audits and self-reporting, which are inconsistent and easy to game. Kontakt.io automates compliance monitoring via smart dispensers that detect when staff enter a patient room and whether they sanitize, triggering real-time nudges when they don’t. Gamification features like automated rewards and recognition further drive sustainable behavior change without disrupting clinical workflows.
By detecting non-compliance in real time and delivering instant nudges to staff, automated monitoring closes the gap between policy and practice, the point where most HAIs originate. Kontakt.io’s system delivers a measurable 5% reduction in hospital-acquired infections by ensuring sanitization happens consistently, not just when an auditor is watching.
Kontakt.io’s system operates passively, dispensers detect room entry and sanitization automatically, with no manual input required from nurses or clinical staff. When compliance gaps occur, real-time nudges prompt correction without involving supervisors or generating paperwork. Nursing teams stay focused on patients, not documentation.
Automated compliance systems generate continuous, facility-level analytics that replace the manual data collection typically required before and during regulatory reviews. Kontakt.io reduces time spent during regulatory audits by 50% by making compliance data instantly available, accurate, and self-service, removing the scramble to compile records under audit pressure.
Yes, Kontakt.io’s automated compliance management delivers self-service analytics at both department and facility level, giving infection prevention teams and senior leaders granular visibility into where compliance gaps exist. That specificity enables targeted interventions rather than blanket policies, making improvement efforts faster and more measurable.