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One of the most worrying issues that clouds the activity in Romanian hospitals and around the world is the occurrence of nosocomial infections, in many cases due to the improper hygiene of the medical staff’s hands. Also in the new context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the issue of hospitals hygiene takes new dimensions. For this reason, the research in the present paper aims at identifying new methods and devices to be used in monitoring the hands hygiene of the medical staff in an efficient and simple manner, using mainly image processing and biometric analysis.It was noticed that by thoroughly observing the problem areas in the attempts of properly sanitizing the hands of the medical staff there arise the possibility of increasing the efficiency of doing away with infections and reduce the risk of further transmitting dangerous diseases. |