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The latest news and information about Real-Time Location Systems for Healthcare.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012
CenTrak, a Leading Provider of Healthcare RTLS, Opens New California Office
Adam Peck, Director of Marketing
CenTrak, a leading provider of Real-Time Location Systems for healthcare, is pleased to announce the opening of its new West Coast office in Menlo Park, CA. The expansion will help CenTrak support its growing list of west coast healthcare partners and end users.
“The new office provides a regional facility to help us better serve our customers on the West Coast. It will function as a destination for meeting partners, customers and prospects and as a ‘showroom’ for our latest technology. We have set-up a fully functioning deployment of our Hybrid Gen2IRTM and Active-RFID RTLS in over fifty rooms, so we can demonstrate the technology in use,” said Dr. Ari Naim, CEO and Founder of CenTrak.
2011 was another breakthrough year for the company, as the number of CenTrak installations grew into the hundreds. With over 300,000 tags deployed in the past four years including tens of thousands of active patient, staff, and temperature tags, CenTrak has positioned itself as one of the clear leaders in the healthcare RTLS industry.
“We are experiencing significant momentum at this point in the market’s evolution. By exceeding our customers’ expectations – typically due to our system’s accuracy, speed, ease of installation/maintenance and affordability – we are receiving positive feedback, new referrals and more opportunities,” indicated Dr. Naim.
“The healthcare RTLS market is rapidly evolving. Hospitals are forgoing basic tracking projects in exchange for real value from integrating certainty-based room-and bed-level location data with traditional Hospital Information Systems and new RTLS workflow applications. CenTrak’s patented Gen2IRTM puts us in prime position to leverage the trend of location-enabling the applications hospitals already own,” indicated Wil Lukens, Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for CenTrak.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 04, 2012
What makes CenTrak the Smarter RTLS for Healthcare?
Adam Peck, Director of Marketing
In case you're new to RTLS and the idea of tracking assets and people in a healthcare environment, you should really get to know CenTrak. Healthcare demands a high-performance (rapid update speeds), highly accurate (100% room and sub-room-level accuracy) and easy to install and maintain (majority of devices are battery operated) Real-Time Location System to help improve utilization of resources during this time of unprecedented change in healthcare. With staff shortages, reduced operating budgets and increased scrutiny for Medicare reimbursement, healthcare needs a smarter workflow management solution. That's where CenTrak comes in. We actually have the ideal RTLS that was designed to handle the demands of healthcare and was engineered to be highly accurate, efficient and easy to maintain.
Please watch this 90-second video -- it will all make sense after you view it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82WYw89BtzU&context=C360270dADOEgsToPDskKMlAkAKAjeT-1WfIGCWPeRWhat does smarter mean? Smarter means focused – CenTrak is exclusively focused on RTLS infrastructure for healthcare. Smarter means faster ROI and more use cases. Smarter means 100% accuracy – The CenTrak Hybrid RTLS Technology (Gen2IR/RFID) -- two technologies working together to maximize power efficiency and accuracy. | |
Smarter means ultimate flexibility – Easy to install and maintain with an open platform that works with your existing IT infrastructure and is adaptable for the future. Smarter mean proven. Tens of millions of square feet, hundreds of thousands tags in use spanning three continents. Ready to make a smarter investment for your healthcare organization? |
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2011
RTLS Technology: Can it be Used to Ensure Patient Safety and Quality Care?
Adam Peck, Director of Marketing
Can real-time locating systems be used to effectively monitor compliance of standard patient safety procedures and protocols? The answer is surprisingly "yes." However, the answer can only be "yes" when the installed RTLS has supreme accuracy and near immediate system location update speeds. The combination of inaccurate (zonal) and stale (delayed-location update speeds) data serves little value. Assuming the RTLS system is highly accurate and works in real-time, below are five applications where a high-performance RTLS can be used effectively to ensure patient safety and high-quality care:
1. Hand hygiene compliance. Almost every hospital has initiated some type of protocol to ensure that physicians and clinicians are washing hands properly prior to interacting with patients. In order to measure the compliance levels, hospitals have traditionally implemented self-reporting systems or "secret shoppers" to report on fellow staff members. These manual reporting methods are subjective and inaccurate. Instead, hospitals could utilize RTLS applications available to monitor real interactions between patients and hand washing dispensers for automatic reporting that are accurate and reliable.
2. Nurse Rounding. Studies show that a systematic nurse rounding program reduces patient falls, reduces call lights and increases patient satisfaction. Subsequently, hospitals have spent millions on consulting to help implement rounding initiatives. RTLS technology that can deliver room/bed-level accuracy may be used to monitor that nurses are following rounding protocols and actually proactively alert nurses when time is approaching to round on a particular patient.
3. Dirty mobile medical equipment surveillance. RTLS systems can be configured to monitor the location of mobile medical equipment such as infusion pumps in near real-time at room level. This visibility allows business logic to determine if medical equipment has moved directly from one patient room to another without passing through a designated cleaning area first. This situation could then trigger an alarm in the form of an email or text message and also cause the asset tag on the pump to flash an LED light and/or emit an audible alarm.
4. Par levels. Quick access to mobile medical equipment is a cornerstone of any hospital patient safety program. RTLS technology that reliably delivers room/bed-level accuracy allows hospitals to monitor par levels of clean equipment of all types ensuring that clean and ready equipment is ready and close by when needed by a patient.
5. Equipment readiness: All mobile medical equipment is on a preventative maintenance schedule to ensure it is safe for patient use. What happens when a hospital's clinical engineering department cannot easily locate equipment that needs regular maintenance or, even worse, is subject to a manufacturer recalls? RTLS asset tracking applications provides technicians with increased visibility to quickly and easily locate medical equipment to ensure it is always in safe working order for patients.
To learn more about using RTLS Technology to help ensure patient safety and quality care go to www.centrak.com
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