A digital solution for Infection Prevention & Control
Our products track where pathogens may have spread, enabling rapid and accurate action to prevent them infecting the next person
Contact UsPreventing the spread of Healthcare Acquired Infections
Proxximos believes that a digital solution can improve contact tracing in hospitals and care homes, as it is:
- Fast – finds infected people before they are infectious
- Accurate – highlights exposed people with precision
- Automatic – frees clinical staff from the work of manual contact tracing
- Multi-pathogen – effective against any communicable disease
Announcing the launch of Proxximos Safer Care
Our solution for care homes
Our platform provides 4 complementary features:
Infection Safe: control and prevention of infections makes your care home safer, reduces closure to admissions, improve occupancy, and saves you money
Resident Safe: protecting residents who wander from harm
Team Safe: lone worker protection, management oversight, security and wellbeing of staff
Asset Safe: tracking mission critical equipment and valuable resident property
Today's contact tracing in hospitals
Manual and labour intensive
Contact tracing has been used to control the spread of infectious disease for over 100 years. Today, it is used in hospitals when a new infection of concern is discovered (MRSA, C.diff, TB, Covid-19, etc). Nurses try to work out who else been exposed so that infection control measures can be taken (isolating the exposed patient, using PPE, etc). This process is done manually with pen and paper by asking people who they have been near, when and for how long
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How does Proxximos work
Wearables keep track of the opportunities for pathogens to spread
We have developed a solution designed for use in both hospitals and care homes. We adapt existing staff pass carriers to include electronics capable of keeping track of all transmission paths, all of the time. This data can then be used to instantly, accurately, automatically find people who have been exposed
Patients or residents also carry wearables, for example as part of their identification wristband, adapted to their needs
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Our next steps
A clinical investigation of the solution
Proxximos is working with Manchester NHS Trust to conduct a clinical investigation of this innovative approach during 2024
Contact UsOur Partners
Proxximos is working with and enjoys support from a number of outstanding organisations
Clinical Investigation Partnership
A clinical investigation in the ICU for evidence generation
Manufacture of Proxximos Devices
UK-based electronic medical device manufacturer with design capability and supply chain expertise
The Francis Crick Institute accelerator
Proxximos is in Cohort 5.0 and enjoys the expertise, funding, advice and support provided by this programme
Support via grant funding
Proxximos is pleased to have secured grant funding from the Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst competition
Cambridge life-sciences VC
Our lead private investor
Cloud/Computing Services
Supporting Proxximos as part of their start up programmes
Membership organisation
Proxximos is pleased to be a corporate member of the healthcare focused Infection Prevention Society
Membership Organisation
The Care Leaders Network - the professional community for the leaders of Social Care organisations
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
We are collaborating with TRACS - a study of infection spread in hospitals and care homes
Recent News
Latest news about Proxximos or papers and articles about digital contact tracing
How big an issue are infections in care homes?
Infection rates Infection rates in care homes run at abou...
Infection rates Infection rates in care homes run at about 11% of residents according to a point prevalence survey, and 10% of residents were on antibiotics[i],vi. The infections being treated were respiratory tract infections (35.1%), urinary tra...
Read MoreThe re-emerging challenge of measles
We are pleased to introduce an insightful guest article o...
We are pleased to introduce an insightful guest article on the re-emergence of measles, authored by Rachel Thaxter, former Head of Infection Prevention & Control at Addenbrookes Hospital. Rachel highlights the critical role of innovative wear...
Read MoreProxximos Joins KQ Labs
We are excited to announce that Proxximos has been select...
We are excited to announce that Proxximos has been selected for the KQ Labs Accelerator run by The Francis Crick Institute
Read MoreEconomic Cost of Hospital Acquired Infections
A study published in the British Medical Journey that exa...
A study published in the British Medical Journey that examined the economic cost of hospital acquired infections. Important headlines are that hospital acquired infections account for 21% of NHS England's bed capacity due to overstaying patients....
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