87-SEAL-SHIELD (877-325-7443) | sales@sealshield.com SealShield.com Automate and Scale the Sanitization of Portable Electronics While Reducing Operational Expenditures Norman Horn, Ph.D. and Christian Davis THREAT OF HAIs FROM PORTABLE DEVICE CONTAMINATION Healthcare acquired infections (HAI) continue to be a growing problem across the world, and the COVID-19 pandemic reversed much of the progress made in the past decade to reduce their prevalence 1,2 . Hand hygiene is often cited as the most important factor to fight HAI spread. 3,4 However, research in multiple areas has concluded that mobile devices used for patient care are unintentionally becoming transmission vectors of pathogenic organisms to patients, 5 and thus the CDC strongly recommends that these devices should be regular

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