The financial loses associated with hospital acquired infections are forcing hospitals to find ways to increase the hand washing rates of its providers. According to the New York Times, video monitoring, hand washing coaches, radio-frequency chips, are being used to get providers to wash their hands. Rewards are giving to those that comply and  warnings are giving to those that do not. In one of the hospital when the provides knew they were being monitored, the rate of hand washing increased by 88 percent.

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