Empowering Infection Preventionists:
Direct Hand Hygiene & Environment Of Care Monitoring
for Hospitals & Long-Term Care.
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SEMMEL
The 2-in-1 Hand Hygiene & Environment Of Care Compliance Platform
Semmel takes the stress out of compliance and designed to simplify every step of the process.
From mobilizing observers to delivering actionable insights, we’ve got you covered.
HH & EOC Combined:
It’s The One-Two Punch You’ve Been Asking For.
SEMMEL HAND HYGIENE
Go beyond direct observation with objective, real-time hand hygiene compliance data.
Take Away Your Stress.
Eliminate 100% manual, mundane work.
Zero data entry. Zero data cleaning. Zero counting. Zero photocopying. Zero hole punching. Zero filing.
Robust data quality backed by Semmel Guarantee*.
100% Hands Free Reporting. Set up once and forget about it.
Empower your observers with mobile app for audit.
Instant. Discreet. Paperless.
Granular Data For The Most Ardent IP
For discerning IPs that demands for more.
Identify hand hygiene barriers.
Identify staff’ care activities.
Record non-compliant staff name.
Audit hand rub and wash techniques.
Relax. You Have Motivated Auditors On Your Side.
Gamified system that keeps auditors motivated, ensuring consistent data collection.
Unmatched Data Quality Guaranteed By Semmel
Money back guarantee if you are not confident with the data quality that you get.
Money Back Guarantee.
Hands-Free Reporting That Truly Sets You Free
Come to the digital age! Ditch the spreadsheets and calculators.
Hundreds of ready-made compliance charts.
Auto create beautiful and context relevant custom reports that directly exports to PowerPoint.
Schedule Semmel to send out these custom PPT reports to any stakeholders each month and/or each quarter.
Environment Of Care:
The Clean Difference: Smarter Environmental Hygiene Monitoring.
Gaps in your environmental safety?
The complexities of EOC audits can often leave gaps, making it difficult to confidently assess your facility’s environmental safety.
SEMMEL POINTER
Ensure consistent and effective cleaning of high-touch surfaces with easy-to-use audit tools.
Customizable Checklist.
Customizable Audit Checklists: Tailor audit forms to your specific departments, protocols, and regulatory requirements.
Easy-to-Use Interface: “Empower your cleaning staff and auditors with a simple, mobile-friendly platform for real-time input.
Consistent, Cost Effective Audit Tool
Our Environmental of Care module transforms your cleaning audit process, making it efficient, consistent, and data-driven.
We provide intuitive tools to standardize your auditing, ensuring every high-touch area is assessed with precision
From patient rooms to surgical suites, easily conduct comprehensive audits tailored to your facility’s specific needs and protocols
Objective Data Capture.
Objective Data Capture: Move beyond subjective observations with structured data collection for cleaning effectiveness.
Visual Documentation
Visual Documentation: “Capture photos to document audit findings, providing clear evidence for training and improvement.
And We Go Further…
Unlike standalone solutions, Semmel Health uniquely integrates your EOC audit data with your hand hygiene compliance results
This powerful combination gives you an unprecedented, holistic view of infection risk, allowing you to identify critical gaps and implement truly targeted interventions for maximum impact on patient safety.
Understand not just if surfaces are clean, but how that cleanliness correlates with staff hand hygiene, providing a comprehensive risk assessment that informs smarter, data-driven decisions.
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IPAC Canada 2025: Meet Kym Wong In Person
Founder & CEO of Semmel
At Semmel Health, our journey began with a deep understanding of the challenges facing Infection Preventionists every single day. As the Founder, I’m passionate about empowering you with the tools to make a real difference in patient safety and operational efficiency.
I am a strong proponent of patient safety and healthcare quality. My dedication led me to develop Semmel, specifically to empower nurses with effective hand hygiene and environment of care monitoring. I’m recognized as a contributor to the field, proudly contributing to the Patient Safety Movement, developing infection control tools with leading infection control specialists, facilitating system reviews by hospitals and organizations like ECRI, training nurses, speaking and travel the world to meet and discuss the latest developments in hand hygiene, healthcare quality constantly bringing new ideas back to continuously improve the Semmel Hand Hygiene ecosystem.
It’s a unique opportunity to connect directly, share ideas, and discover how Semmel Health can become your trusted partner.
Why Canada?
We only have a handful of customers in Canada. Their commitment to direct, in-the-moment compliance aligns with Semmel’s mission. What truly resonates with me is Canada’s 4 Moments for Hand Hygiene. While it’s an abridged version of the 5 Moments, it critically focuses on measuring compliance during the moments of care, which is vital. This is a significant distinction from other convenient frameworks that often miss many critical care moments. We’re here to provide Canadian Infection Preventionists with precise, reliable data and relief busy IPs from mundane work.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Our solution sets a new standard for hand hygiene monitoring by capturing the true compliance rate – something competitors cannot achieve. With features like simultaneous auditing of up to four staff, geofencing to ensure data is collected only within the hospital compound, validation audits, cross-department audits, barrier analysis, staff ID and gamification to sustain observer motivation, we deliver the most accurate and reliable data in the industry.
These guardrails ensure your compliance rates reflect reality, empowering you to drive meaningful improvements in patient safety.
Semmel is built for Infection Control Nurses (ICNs) and hospitals that are serious about transforming hand hygiene compliance into a true defense against infections. If you’re committed to patient safety, tired of superficial efforts, and ready to overcome the challenges of people, time, and outdated methods, Semmel is your solution.
Designed for those who walk the talk, Semmel empowers you to achieve measurable, sustainable change. If you believe hand hygiene is the cornerstone of patient safety, let’s turn that belief into action – book a demo.
While Microsoft Forms, Google Forms, or pen and paper may seem sufficient, they often fall short in capturing the true compliance rate and driving meaningful change. These methods are prone to human error and lack real-time validation – critical for accurate data. Semmel goes beyond basic data collection by offering advanced features.
If your goal is to achieve measurable, sustainable improvements in hand hygiene compliance and patient safety, Semmel provides the tools to turn data into actionable insights. Let us show you how we can elevate your efforts beyond ‘doing fine’ to truly excelling.
Absolutely. Semmel is designed to handle the scale of large network hospitals with multiple institutions and centralized reporting needs. Our solution is particularly effective for standardizing hand hygiene methodologies, harmonizing data across facilities, and setting benchmarks for compliance. Whether you’re managing a single hospital or an entire network, Semmel ensures seamless scalability, consistent reporting, and actionable insights to drive system-wide improvements in hand hygiene and patient safety.
Semmel is designed to support healthcare organizations of all sizes, including small hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and clinics. While you may be a smaller facility, the importance of accurate hand hygiene monitoring and patient safety remains just as critical.
Semmel’s scalable solution is ideal for smaller settings, offering the same advanced features without unnecessary complexity. Whether you’re a small hospital or a day surgery center, Semmel helps you achieve measurable improvements in compliance and patient safety.
Yes, we offer a free trial to help you experience the full value of Semmel. To ensure you get the most out of it, we start with a call to understand your needs and set up your account.
- Tailor the setup to your specific needs.
- Provide hands-on training to ensure your team is confident using Semmel.
- Offer close support from day one to help you achieve quick wins.
This approach ensures you get the most value from your free trial and sets the foundation for a long-term partnership.
During your free trial, you’ll get:
Simply book a demo call with us. We’ll discuss your goals, set up your account, and guide you through the process.
Most organizations are up and running within days. Our team provides step-by-step guidance to ensure a smooth transition.
Yes. We offer comprehensive training for your observers, administrators, and stakeholders to ensure everyone is confident using Semmel.
Absolutely. Semmel offers customizable reports tailored to each stakeholder’s needs, from hand hygiene compliance charts to detailed barrier analysis.
Getting buy-in is easier when you align Semmel with your organization’s key initiatives. Here’s how Semmel supports your goals:
- Patient Safety: Reduce HAIs and protect patients with better compliance.
- Accreditation: Meet stringent standards with validated, error-free data.
- Operational Efficiency: Save hours on manual reporting and data collection.
- Cost Savings: Prevent costly infections and penalties with improved compliance.
Present Semmel as a strategic investment in patient safety, compliance, and operational excellence. We’re happy to provide case studies, ROI calculations, and tailored demos to help you make the case.
Semmel takes data security seriously and invests in protecting your data. We put security measures and maintain policies and procedures to comply with required data security standards, and we continue to take all the necessary measures to improve our information security level. Semmel operates from AWS servers which have extensive security certification. We will never sell, share or otherwise distribute Personally Identifiable Information, except as required of us by law enforcement agencies. We do use internally anonymised data to support our product development and improvement processes and to produce aggregated statistical data benchmarks. Neither of these uses exposes any risk of personal identification. We encrypt all data in transit and at rest, in all services.
Your data’s security is our top priority. Read more about our Data Security in this article.
No. Semmel is designed to monitor hand hygiene compliance, not store personal or patient data. We collect only the information necessary to track compliance, such as:
- Observer activity (e.g., who collected the data and when).
- Compliance metrics (e.g., opportunities achieved, barriers identified).
Your data is secure, anonymized, and used solely for compliance purposes.
You are the owner of your data and you are ultimately responsible for it. We provide security functionality to protect your data. Semmel manages your data based on our contracted agreements and privacy policy.
Your team – will have access to the data, using Semmel credentials that you will manage, or via SSO (SAML 2.0). You can control who can view, edit, upload and download any information or document based on their configured access.
Our team – a small number of authorised Semmel personnel as defined in our security policy can gain access to your data. Any Semmel team member doing so will be performing specific (auditable) tasks on your request via our support desk.
We understand. Security is a top priority for us too. Semmel uses enterprise-grade encryption and complies with global data protection standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA). Our platform is designed to:
- Protect your data with robust security measures.
- Ensure compliance with industry regulations.
- Provide peace of mind for your IT and InfoSec teams.
We’re happy to provide detailed security documentation and work with your team to address any concerns.