Equipment Tracking
Equipment tracking
Improved work flow, patient flow and a lot of time saved are some of the benefits obtained when hospital staff always know where their movable equipment is located.
By tagging high cost patient care items the utilization can be improved, allowing reduced intventory and rentals.
To be able to easily locate equipment is imprtant:
- Safety reasons; preventative maintenance and equipment recalls
- Regulatory reasons; required by regulatory agencies
- Utilization reasons; ensuring equipment is available when needed and right sizing the equipment pool
- Financial reasons; asset management & accountability
- Efficiency reasons; effective use of nursing and staff time
Taking it a step further, the location information can be used by applications which can associate objects like patient and nurse, patient and room, patient and equipment etc.
An ultrasound based RTLS solution supplies location aware hospital application software with accurate and reliable location data.
