· Monitors and improves hand hygiene compliance.
· Reduces the healthcare associated infection rate.
· Non-intrusive - Does not identify by badges or tags.
· Non-threatening - Users are not penalized for not washing.
· Non-coercive - Depends on training rather than on sanctions.
· Non-stigmatizing - Users are not identified as having dirty hands.
· Non invasive - No cameras or microphones.
· Fully customizable - readily adapted to your facility.
· Multilingual messages, if desired.
· Customizable compliance reports.
· Free software upgrades.

Hand Hygiene Monitor increases hand hygiene compliance through education, rather than through threats or coercion. It is consistent with hospital efforts to educate for hand hygiene. Its effects are cost effective, ethically acceptable, slow to extinguish and likely to be transferred to other hospitals and private homes.