Healthcare Applications

Creating Healthier and Safer Computing Environments for Healthcare Operations.

Hospitals, medical labs, clinics and doctors' offices take great strides to ensure a clean and sanitary environment for patients. Instruments are sterilized, gloves and masks are worn, and hazardous materials are disposed of with great caution - all to reduce the incidence of exposure to contaminants. However, one of the biggest breeding grounds for bacteria and other infectious agents is typically overlooked: the PC keyboard.

Hospital Acquired Infections: 20,000 deaths per year in the UK alone!

As medical organizations push toward greater levels of automation and paperless office standards, PCs are becoming more and more prevalent in all aspects of operations. From the front desk, to accounting, to patient education and exam rooms, PCs - and keyboards - are omnipresent.

PC keyboards are also hotspots for bacteria. PC keyboards harbor more than 3000 microbes per square inch - as compared to toilet seats' 49. Yet most healthcare organizations do little or nothing to remedy the situation - leaving employees and patients alike susceptible to infection and illness.

The problem is a result of two things:

• Most people are unaware just how "dirty" keyboards are.
  Individuals are conditioned to wash their hands after using the bathroom, or to wash food preparation materials when handling raw meat, but the general population isn't educated about keyboard contamination. Recent research is changing that awareness.
• Keyboards typically aren't conducive to cleaning.
  Most people consider running fluids across the surface of their keyboards as dangerous - that liquid may "short out" their computer. As a result, keyboards are left unopposed to breed an increasing amount of bacteria. Even so-called spill-resistant keyboards are limited in their protection against fluids.

Features:

• Washable & easy-to-disinfect:
  Unotron keyboards can be sprayed with a disinfectant and then then rinsed thoroughly under running water.
• Full-travel keyboard:
  Unlike washable keyboards with a one-piece design, Unotron keyboards have standard, full-travel keys for the tactile response you are expect
• Surprisingly affordable:
  Unotron keyboards are a quarter of the cost of other sealed keyboard designs.

Benefits:

• Expand your Infection Control Program:
  Fully disinfecting keyboards can now be part of your program to reduce Hospital Acquired Infections.
• Standard feel keyboard:
  Give your doctors, employees and patients keyboards with the performance they expect.
• Save money:
  Stretch your budget by buying smart.