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Check-In
Check-In

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Product Description:
Check-In is a precision platform made up of two products and built with your people’s privacy in mind. Status Connect keeps you connected to your workforce and provides a near real-time view of their productivity. Automatic Contact Tracing identifies risk exposure so you can quickly take action and reduce impact to your people.
About PwC:
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is an accounting firm that provides assurance, audit, tax, human resources, transactional, performance improvement, and crisis management services. It serves sectors such as aerospace and defense, healthcare, hospitality and leisure, industrial manufacturing, real estate, retail and consumer, technology, transportation and logistics, financial services, entertainment and media, chemicals, metals, banking and capital markets, automotive, private equity, and more. PricewaterhouseCoopers was founded through a merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998.
Product Description:
Disinfectants are the first line of defense against the transmission of pathogens, but human error can render disinfectants ineffective. To inactivate a microbe, a surface must be fully covered in disinfectant for a specific amount of time, known as the contact time or wet time. Current disinfectants, however, are transparent, making it almost impossible to verify that a surface has been completely covered. Most surfaces in healthcare settings are also waterproof, causing disinfectants to bead up and roll off, leaving gaps in coverage. Healthcare personnel compliance with contact times is also difficult to monitor in real-time, with workers often wiping off or touching the disinfectant prior to the required contact time. As a result, studies have shown that more than 50% of healthcare surfaces are not cleaned properly. Globally, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) affect 7-10% of all patients, affecting millions of lives and costing billions of dollars in losses every year; in the United States alone, HAIs lead to over 99,000 deaths and $45bn lost in the healthcare system. Of particular concern is the increasing number of HAIs with antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It’s clear that simply choosing the right disinfectant isn’t enough, and that how disinfectants are actually used is a critical factor in preventing infections. It has been well-documented that improving disinfection compliance and reducing human error can reduce HAIs by 40-90% and AMR by 25%. Kinnos has developed Highlight®, a patented and award-winning color additive that is combined with existing disinfectants. Highlight mitigates human error by colorizing disinfectants blue to ensure surfaces are completely covered and fading from blue to colorless to indicate in real-time when decontamination is done. Highlight empowers health workers to disinfect surfaces correctly every single time they use a disinfectant, offering a much higher degree of safety and confidence. In addition to improving compliance and thoroughness of cleaning, Highlight also reduces surface corrosion caused by disinfectants (e.g. bleach on stainless steel) to save hospitals money and neutralizes the smell of disinfectants (such as bleach) to improve both staff and patient comfort and satisfaction. Specifically for US hospitals where ready-to-use disinfectant wipes are commonly used, the Highlight system comprises of 1) a reusable lid that snaps onto existing disinfectant wipe canisters and 2) a disposable cartridge that contains sufficient Highlight colorant and batteries for one canister of wipes. As the wipe goes through the lid, it gets colorized (watch a short 30 second demo video here: [www.kinnos.us/highlight-wipes](www.kinnos.us/highlight-wipes)). The Highlight lid system not only helps hospitals save money by limiting staff from grabbing too many wipes at once, but it also retracts wipes after a period of inactivity to prevent wipes from drying out. Future iterations of the lid will also include data tracking (e.g. number of wipes used per room) as a way to audit the disinfection process.
About Kinnos Inc.:
Kinnos is an NYC-based company focused on protecting patients and health workers from infections. Our first product, Highlight, is a patented color additive for existing disinfectants that colorizes them to ensure complete coverage on surfaces and which then fades to colorless to indicate in real-time when the contact time is met and decontamination is done. Highlight eliminates human error and empowers people to disinfect surfaces correctly every single time they use a disinfectant, providing continuous training and self-monitoring that transcends language and education barriers. Highlight was a grantee of the USAID Fighting Ebola Grand Challenge, is used by NGOs, laboratories, and first responders for biosafety trainings and epidemic response, and is currently being piloted in leading hospital systems.

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Description:
Highlight can be combined with disinfectants that are already being used in hospitals and on the same surfaces that are currently being disinfected.
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Highlight has been piloted by leading US healthcare systems and will be commercially launched in the first half of 2019\. To date, the data quantitatively shows that Highlight improves thoroughness of cleaning and compliance (e.g. ATP and fluorescent marker metrics) and qualitatively indicates that staff strongly prefer Highlight over the status quo.

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Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:
Unlike post-cleaning quality control metrics (i.e. ATP scores and fluorescent markers), Highlight enables staff to self-monitor their work every single time they use a disinfectant, overcoming language and education barriers (especially helpful for Joint Commission and CMS inspections) and mitigating the problem of high staff turnover.
Differentiators vs Competitors:
There are many new infection prevention technologies that attempt to address the problem of human error in environmental cleaning (e.g. UV lights and misters/sprayers), but Highlight is the only innovation that is designed to go back to the basics and fundamentally improve human behavior during basic environmental cleaning.

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