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Control of hospital-acquired infections is very important in hospital setting and hand hygiene plays a vital role. The monitoring of compliance to hand hygiene practices has been automated by AeroScout solution by Stanley Healthcare which monitors hand washing by each staff and can identify breaks in infection control practices. This can potentially save billions of dollars spent in combating hospital-acquired infections every year [31]. In a study which compared automated hand hygiene compliance system with human observers, it was found that automated system collected better data and resulted in compliance goals being met although the reduction in hospital-acquired infections was not significant [32]. Automated compliance systems have also resulted in better health for the hospital staff resulting in less employee absenteeism [33].