Frequently Asked Questions

By digitizing this process that is mandatory and done by humans in hospitals and food production & service facilities, it reduces the spread of hospital infections and foodborne outbreaks that cause hundreds of thousands of deaths & billions of dollars in annual financial losses by rapidly increasing hand hygiene compliance by ~50%.

For Hospitals:

The treatment, which averages $2,000-$2,500 per infection, reduces the cost of extended patient stays and resource use. YIKA reduces infection risks by 50%, lowering costs related to treatment, extended patient stays, and resource usage caused by infections. It also speeds up patient transitions from intensive care to regular wards, improving operational efficiency.

For Food Manufacturing and Service Facilities:

YIKA helps prevent foodborne outbreaks and product contamination, reducing the costs of product recalls. It also minimizes the need for disposable gloves, balancing these savings with YIKA’s annual costs.

• It monitors the moments when hand hygiene is provided and expected, without affecting the staff's work routine, in accordance with WHO standards, through smart badges and sensors placed in hygiene protection zones. It sends reminders to employees when they need to provide hand hygiene, thanks to the red and green lighting on the badges.
• It processes all the data collected from the field and provides actionable, qualified statistics to the Infection Control Committee and Food Quality Experts in our reporting application. Thus, it enables them to quickly increase hand hygiene compliance.

The setup of YIKA is straightforward. With plug-and-play sensors and a user-friendly interface, it requires no special installation process.

YIKA is an IoT system powered by AI. It includes smart badges and sensors that communicate with each other, image processing-based camera modules, and a dashboard.

In the vast majority of hospitals and food facilities around the world, hand hygiene is tracked manually with pen-and-paper observation forms. Infection Control Committees spend a lot of time generating actionable data from these forms. The CDC reports that in the average hospital, 1 in 2 hand hygiene moments are missed, and in the food industry, 2 in 3 are missed. Low hand hygiene compliance is the leading cause of hospital infections and foodborne outbreaks that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars in direct costs each year. YIKA helps prevent moral and financial losses in the companies it works with by tracking hand hygiene digitally and continuously.

YIKA processes all data collected from the installed areas 24/7 and provides actionable, qualified statistics in the dashboard. Thus, hand hygiene compliance can be monitored at any time when needed. Retrospective reports can be generated to analyze past data and trends.

With YIKA, WHO recommended indications are monitored. It provides statistics on a per-person basis through smart badges, proactively warns badge users at the right moments, and can measure how true hands are washed with a camera module. These qualified statistics provide institutions with immediate action opportunities, helping us to accurately measure compliance rates with continuous observation data and to improve quickly.

YIKA can be used in hospitals, restaurants, supermarkets, and food production facilities where hand hygiene is critical.