Healthcare Assets Management Solutionby Bynet

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Overview

Healthcare organizations face a wide spectrum of challenges, including constantly-rising

financial pressure, regulatory restrictions, the need for continual improvement in staff time-

efficiency, and patient/staff safety concerns. Many of the problems contributing to these

challenges share a common cause – a lack of ”visibility” of the real-time location, status

and condition of patients, staff, medical equipment and other mobile assets. An infusion

pump that isn’t regularly maintained, an open refrigerator with temperature-sensitive goods,

suboptimal patient flow within and between departments, or a wandering patient - can all

have a major impact on a hospital’s overall quality of care and business. Bynet addresses

and provides solutions to meet these challenges, increasing visibility within hospitals and

delivering tools that stimulate operational efficiency.

Unified Asset Visibility Suite for Healthcare

Bynet’s solutions provide visibility of location, status and condition of assets, patients and

staff throughout the various hospital departments.

Bynet’s healthcare solutions include real-time asset management, equipment maintenance,

temperature & humidity monitoring, patient flow, and patient/staff safety. These modular

and scalable applications all employ industry-leading technology to leverage clients’ existing

Wi-Fi infrastructure, and integrate with Video Surveillance, ERP and healthcare IT software

systems and applications using Dynamic XML open interfaces.

Bynet’s solutions serve the needs of clinical staff, IT management, materials department,

clinical and biomedical engineers, laboratory and pharmacy personnel and others. These

solutions ensure regulatory compliance, improve safety, reduce CapEx and OpEx, increase

staff efficiency, increase revenue, and enhance patient care.

The Healthcare Visibility Suite offers a range of applications, such as:

Asset Management – The real-time equipment tracking solution features automated

inventory management, par-level management, order fulfillment and rental management

capabilities. It leverages the existing Wi-Fi network for hospital-wide visibility, location,

condition and status of equipment (e.g. infusion pumps, wheelchairs, defibrillators). Hospital

map views of specific assets, or groups of assets, are accessed from a web-based application

or from handheld devices (PDAs or mobile phones). Real-time equipment location, integration

to inventory, and materials management systems, are provided, as are sophisticated reporting

tools for analysis of utilization rates, inventory, distribution and par levels.

Equipment Maintenance – This automates the current manual processes used by hospitals

to locate equipment requiring preventive maintenance, repair or recall. Hospital map views of

specific assets, or groups of assets, requiring maintenance or recall, are accessed from a web-

based application or handheld devices. Integration of real-time equipment location and map

views with maintenance management systems is provided, as are sophisticated reporting tools

which improve the workflow of daily maintenance procedures.

Temperature & Humidity Monitoring – Safe temperature ranges for organs, vaccines,

blood bags, food and pharmaceuticals are ensured through an automated Wi-Fi monitoring

and alerting system. The Wi-Fi temperature tags are easily placed in hospital refrigerators or

freezers. In addition, humidity ranges in patient or operating rooms are monitored by Wi-

Fi humidity tags. The solution leverages the hospital’s existing Wi-Fi network, requires no

dedicated sensor network, no hard wires, and is easy to install. Software application provides

automated temperature and humidity monitoring and alert, as well as all required logging and

reporting of data for regulatory compliance.

Patient & Staff Safety – This includes a set of applications for patient safety (elopement),

staff duress and patient distress. Some patients (e.g. trauma victims, Alzheimer’s and

dementia patients) may pose a risk to themselves or to staff. The solution enables tracking

patients throughout the hospital, and immediately monitors if a patient exits the ward/

building or enters a restricted area. Patients can be equipped with wireless call button tags

to alert staff of an emergency. Staff can wear call-button tags with which to alert other staff

members should they encounter an emergency, or in situations of staff duress. Additionally,

Bynet enables integration of RTLS to nurse-call systems to detect staff presence in patient

rooms, and to automate hospital procedures.

Patient Flow – In the operating rooms, clinics and other departments, knowing the location

and status of clinical staff, patients, beds and critical clinical equipment is essential to

improving patient care and departmental workflow. Staff can utilize the location and status

application to ensure that procedures begin on time, thus decreasing patient waiting times.

The real-time visibility of patients within and between departments, and the availability of

rooms and beds, are easily determined through tracking boards. The location and status

data can be integrated into existing software systems to help optimize workflows, increasing

throughput and patients’ content.

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Solution Components

Tags and Wi-Fi Devices Industry-leading Wi-Fi tags are small, rugged, wireless devices that can be attached to assets or people to track their location. Each tag emits a unique low-power wireless signal, allowing the software application to recognize the movements of each specific tag. The tags have a battery life of up to four years, and include advanced features such as a call button, temperature and humidity sensing capabilities, tamper sensing and motion detection. Assets can be tracked both indoors or outdoors, and Wi-Fi enabled devices can be tracked without the necessity of software client installation.

Infrastructure Standard Wi-Fi access points act as “readers,” receiving all tag transmissions and forwarding them to a location engine which pinpoints location. This allows hospitals to use their existing Wi-Fi network for real-time visibility solutions. Exciters are unique choke-point detection devices, which cause tags within a close range to send an instantaneous alert. This ensures that hospitals can monitor whenever an asset, staff member or patient will pass through a doorway, enter or exit a room or facility, or access a restricted area.

Software ApplicationWeb-based enterprise-wide software solution for viewing location, status and condition information from any source (Wi-Fi RFID, Passive RFID, sensors, etc.). The system includes search capabilities, rules-based alerts, and advanced reporting. Location and status data can be integrated into other hospital management systems, and can also be viewed on mobile devices.

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