November 2025

At Vitalacy, one of our missions is to help healthcare organizations achieve the highest standards in patient safety through accurate, actionable hand hygiene data. To make it easier for our partners to understand and improve their performance, we developed the Vitalacy Hand Hygiene Grade. This framework provides a clear, standardized way to emulate hand hygiene […]

The Challenge of Measuring True Compliance For more than a decade, infection prevention programs have relied on direct observation as the gold standard for assessing hand hygiene compliance. Trained observers document whether healthcare workers disinfect their hands during the World Health Organization’s “5 Moments for Hand Hygiene” — before and after patient contact, before aseptic