CenTrak’s Enterprise Location Services™ enable real-time tracking and security of medical equipment, staff and patients. The improved visibility provides a means for healthcare facilities to prevent the spread of infection, increase patient safety and receive immediate contamination alerts. Our best-in-class monitoring solution also provides a cost-effective means to automatically capture compliance and noncompliance events 24/7.

CenTrak improves healthcare operational workflow and the quality of patient care via the industry’s most robust and scalable Enterprise Locating and Sensing Services offering. With a unique combination of Wi-Fi and Clinical-Grade technologies and the largest selection of tags for all types of patient care environments, CenTrak enables healthcare facilities to maximize the ROI from their Real-Time Location System (RTLS) platform. It’s more than just a hospital tracking system – it provides actionable location and condition data across the entire healthcare enterprise. CenTrak has helped over 1,700 world-class healthcare facilities increase productivity, streamline workflows, drive higher patient and staff satisfaction and reduce costs. Why Choose CenTrak? Location Accuracy - CenTrak’s patented Second Generation Infrared (Gen2IR™) technology delivers certainty-based location with the capability of segmenting spaces into clinically meaningful zones. For clinical applications, zones are typically patient rooms, beds, bays, nursing stations, hallway segments and other relevant workflow areas. Update Speed - CenTrak’s platform delivers rapid location and condition updates capable of capturing interactions between equipment, patients and staff within seconds. The collection of clinical milestones are also facilitated using immediate button presses. CenTrak provides the only Real-Time Location System specifically engineered to handle the speed, precision and rigors of today’s healthcare environment. Multiple form factors – Largest selection of tags including reusable, single use, infant, wander, and staff badges provide options for all types of patients and care environments. Multi-Mode Technology – A unique combination of WiFi, CenTrak’s Gen2IR, Low Frequency RF, UHF Active RFID, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and others to future-proof investment and maximize ROI. Easy Installation – Battery-powered devices are installed easily in patient care areas without the need to close rooms or deploy special infection prevention measures. Interoperability – Open location platform for seamless integration with both existing and new applications including Nurse Call, Electronic Health Records, Capacity Management, Bed Management, Asset Management, Computerized Maintenance Management and Hand Hygiene Compliance. Reliability – Ensures critical location, condition and status updates are delivered to the application level. Enterprise-class monitoring provides at-a-glance visibility. Devices and tags are equipped with long-lasting batteries.

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.

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.

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.

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.