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Masimo Announces the Limited Market Release of Visual Clinical Activity Monitoring (VCAM™)
AI-Based Video Analysis System Promotes Hand Hygiene Compliance, Integrates with Masimo Hospital Automation™ Platform IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nAI-Based Video Analysis System Promotes Hand Hygiene Compliance, Integrates with Masimo Hospital Automation™ Platform\n\n IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nMasimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced the limited market release of Visual Clinical Activity Monitoring (VCAM™), a video analysis system that uses artificial intelligence to help facilitate compliance with hospital hand hygiene protocols. VCAM, which integrates seamlessly with the Masimo Hospital Automation™ platform of solutions, including Masimo Patient SafetyNet™, Replica®, and Root®, is designed to help hospitals and other care facilities optimize protocol adherence, with real-time notifications at the point-of-care about current hand hygiene status and powerful analytics around protocol compliance – with the ultimate goal of helping institutions decrease the incidence of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230130005186/en/Masimo VCAM™ with Root® (Photo: Business Wire)\nHand hygiene is well known to be an important factor in infection control activities, with numerous studies showing that washing one’s hands is the “single most important, simplest, and least expensive means of reducing the prevalence of HAIs and the spread of antimicrobial resistance.”1 A recently published study conducted across multiple sites over eight years in Finland, for example, found a direct correlation between increased compliance with hand hygiene protocols and decreased incidence of HAIs.2 However, in the absence of “active” hand hygiene initiatives – programs, for example, designed to measure and automate compliance – the compliance rate with such protocols rarely exceeds 40% in hospitals and other healthcare institutions.1\n\nMasimo VCAM, powered by Masimo’s expertise in AI-enabled algorithms and based on each facility’s standards, makes it easier for hospitals to optimize staff adherence to hand hygiene protocols by providing notifications on the spot, tracking compliance, and automating reporting. VCAM detects when clinicians are performing hygiene activities, such as washing hands or using an alcohol-based sanitizer, and identifies when they interact with people and objects, as well as when they touch or pick up an object from a potentially unclean surface such as the floor. I...