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the ability to network multiple outlets. For healthcare, this can ensure that water management is always optimised for user safety and infection control. A single tap or small network of Intelligent Care taps can be fully controlled directly via the Rada app, which has been as carefully designed by Rada as the range itself. Intelligent Care also allows connection into an existing BMS network, providing estates and facilities managers with an overview of the entire network from a central point
Enhancing care delivery The taps can be integrated into a BMS network to allow facilities managers to automate, monitor, and manage Intelligent Care’s functionality, including flow times, temperatures, and infection control regimes. This helps to increase operational efficiencies with precision. As well as eliminating the risk of human error in undertaking key management tasks, these efficiencies mean that resources can be diverted to other areas to enhance care delivery. Each tap records when it was last used, meaning ‘smart’ duty flushing regimes need only happen as required. Data logging records are also still updated to demonstrate compliance with guidelines. This affords a much greater level of flexibility to infection control regimes, and has the added benefit of conserving precious water and energy resources. This can help save costs, while further freeing up staff time.
Duty flushing and thermal disinfection activity are logged to the tap’s memory, giving healthcare providers clear, accurate evidence of compliance with required guidelines. This data capture functionality is a valuable step in enhancing the monitoring, maintenance, and promotion, of water management within the hospital.
The panel and basin-mounted taps all have chrome-coated exterior surfaces with no joins and crevices, removing areas typically prone to bacterial growth.
Achieving operational excellence Rada set out to provide estates teams and Water Safety Groups with peace of mind in knowing that essential hygiene functions and the products themselves are operating as they should. Each Intelligent Care tap on a BMS network can be monitored in real time from a central point, with functionality included for pre-emptive system alerts. This means that any anomalies can be identified swiftly, and remedial action taken immediately, helping to avoid the inconveniences of a non- operational tap on a ward.
Using actionable intelligence to make best practice-led adjustments is a valuable and targeted way to ensure that estates teams have the support they need to manage risks more broadly. It means that estates teams have access to insight that enables water management, and its important role in infection prevention and control, to be made easier and more effective than ever.
Supporting handwashing best practice
With handwashing key to preventing infection in healthcare settings, it is vital that frontline staff, patients, and visitors, all have access to tools that actively promote and encourage hand hygiene best practice. However, water temperatures that are too cold or too warm will play a part in how long someone will wash their hands for. The same can be true of programmed flow times. This knowledge played a key role in the creation of Intelligent Care’s comprehensive programming options.
Each tap records when it was last used, meaning ‘smart’ duty flushing regimes need only happen as required.
Water flow times can be programmed to support the specific handwashing protocols that nurses, doctors, and surgeons must follow according to the application setting. The ability to control how long a tap will stay on for can also be used to promote public handwashing guidance in patient and visitor spaces, ensuring that appropriate hand hygiene
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measures are encouraged according to the infection control responsibilities of every user.
Precise control over water temperature settings is also offered – key to promoting best practice by ensuring a comfortable user experience. Intelligent Care’s data capture functionality also offers a valuable way to encourage and, to an extent, better assess, compliance with hand hygiene guidelines.
Intelligent Care is more than just a tap. It is a pioneering piece of technology that embraces all the advantages of a modern, connected world. Every element has been designed by Rada to help reduce bacterial growth and spread, improve and support infection control, and achieve user and patient safety. It is a new standard for how healthcare taps can help keep people safe and contribute to an optimised estate.
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