From paper to practice: hyFive in action at Mater Dei Hospital

How can digital tools make hand hygiene monitoring easier in healthcare settings?

Prof Michael Borg, Infection Prevention and Control Lead at Mater Dei Hospital in Malta, shares his experience of using hyFive, ECDC’s digital hand hygiene monitoring tool.

Moving from paper-based observations to a mobile tool made monitoring more convenient and less time-consuming for the infection prevention and control team. It also made observations less conspicuous and provided useful reporting functions, helping the team turn observation data into clear feedback for hospital wards.

hyFive supports structured hand hygiene observations in healthcare settings and provides real-time data on compliance. It is aligned with WHO’s Five Moments for Hand Hygiene and is designed to support the prevention of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance.