Soap-sniffing technology encourages hand washing to reduce hospital-acquired infections

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 23:07 in Health & Medicine

Call it a Breathalyzer for the hands. Using sensors capable of detecting drugs in breath, new technology developed at University of Florida monitors health-care workers' hand hygiene by detecting sanitiser or soap fumes given off from their hands...

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