Best Asset Tracking for Healthcare / Hospital

Awarepoint Real-time Awareness Platform

Awarepoint calls its RTLS a “real-time awareness system” or RTAS. Awarepoint implemented the largest healthcare RTAS system on record that initially tracked 12,000 medical equipment assets over a 3.8 million square foot, multi-building campus and is expanding to two additional hospitals covering 5.8 million square feet and an anticipated 16,000 assets. In addition to tracking such key assets as infusion, pain and fluid pumps, and portable ultrasound machines, the system monitors equipment conditions. Awarepoint temperature monitoring tags wirelessly monitor and maintain logs on temperature-sensitive assets such as refrigerators, freezers and warmers. The system sends real-time alerts for out-of-compliance situations to protect critical temperatures and allow maximum staff response time and accountability.

On medical center freed up 1,600 hours per year in operating-room staff time, simply in locating equipment. Far from being just an efficiency measure, delays in locating critical equipment “show stoppers” can delay surgery, and resultantly, impact both patient safety and the hospital’s top-line revenue.

Our team also likes Awarepoint's 100 percent wireless, non-disruptive installation, low cost to trial (owing to no construction costs) and fully managed service model allowing facilities to easily scale up the system on a per-month basis. Most importantly, there is NO distruction to operations or impact on existing infrastructure.

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