Solution Benefits

Optimized patient management: Wearable tags help in tracking and precisely locating patients within hospital premises.

Efficient asset management: Know precisely where the various equipment in the hospital are, and ensure safety of equipment with reduced manual intervention.

Improved staff management: Efficient manage-ment of hospital personnel for improved alloca-tion and operational efficiency.

Complete end-to-end solution: A fully embed-ded hardware, network, and software solution to ensure a complete and comprehensive RTLS package.

Safety & Security: Never worry about expensive equipment being stolen, or people in unautho-rized locations, or about taking the right action during an emergency.

Challenges

Patient care is crucial in the healthcare industry. Doctors and urgent care professionals may sometimes find it difficult to track the current state of a patient, or to precisely locate where a patient is. This is particularly important when immediate care is expected in cases of an emergency – such as a patient fallen in the hallway. Staff management is another key aspect where it is necessary to ensure there is enough staff in the hospital to ensure sufficient care for patients. Doctors and supervisors also need to be aware of identity of employees available in a particular shift. Hospitals are home to some of the best technologically advanced equipment. While these inevitably help in patient care, they are sometimes incredibly expensive to acquire. Hence, it always becomes necessary for healthcare personnel to locate, and also to ensure the safety of such equipment.

The use of technology in healthcare is highly important to improve patient management, staff management and productivity, asset manage-ment and safety. This involves real-time location of people and equip-ment as well as analysis of movement over a period of time. It is also essential to determine optimal and efficient allocation of resources.

Solution

The Precise Protect solution address these challenges faced in the healthcare industry. It combines innovative hardware components built with the company’s own industry leading wireless MCUs and a compre-hensive software platform that provides location visualization, analytics, alerts, and more.

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Real Time Patient Tracking & Fall Detection

The solution provides for real-time visualization of the location of a patient. It can also provide filters to categorize patients based on zones. Movement analysis helps in determining if a patient is out of the room for longer durations, and if there is an emergency, such as a fall. Sometimes, patients may wander around to keep themselves active. It becomes necessary for healthcare personnel to precisely locate such patients in real-time.

The solution allows you to precisely locate assets in a hospital. Wireless tags mounted on the assets can be enrolled into the system. The mapping and visualization functions included will help define specific zones and provide asset reports for each zone. Most equipment used in the healthcare industry are expensive, and it only makes sense to be able to track and locate them in real time to ensure safety of such equipment.

Some areas in the hospitals may be restricted to certain personnel categories only, such as doctors, while other areas may be closed for a specific duration due to maintenance or emergency operations. Generally, visual signages are provided to alert personnel. Nevertheless, it is important to identify and prevent unauthorized entry. The Precise Protect solution provides for such dynamic definition of zones and provides instant alerts when a breach has occurred.

Real Time Asset Tracking

Unauthorized Access Prevention

Ensuring enough doctors and other healthcare personnel are present at any point in time is necessary in the healthcare industry. This is also to ensure there is sufficient care for patients at all times. The Precise Protect solutions allows for such employee management and allocation. It will also help supervisors chart out plans for efficient staff and resource utilization.

Staff & Resource Management

Hospitals need to ensure there is enough beds to house patients. It would not be acceptable for healthcare personnel to be unaware of any available beds, thereby denying care to a patient in need. Precise Protect solution may provide bed information alerts for efficient tracking.

Bed Management

Wearables solution using Precise Protect helps parents rest assured about the safety of their new born child in hospitals. The solution alerts personnel immediately when such a breach of security occurs. Loss of expensive equipment in an industrial set up becomes a major liability. Precise Protect provides for real time location of equipment, and alerts personnel or supervi-sors when such equipment are moved, or removed from the premises.

Infant Abduction & Theft Prevention

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How It’s Done

The Precise Protect solution for healthcare integrates several components to offer patient tracking, staff management, and asset tracking. These include tags, wireless infrastructure elements, and application software. Tags come in various form factors – asset, badge, and wearables. The tags aid in tracking patients, personnel, and equipment. This is achieved either by measuring received signals strength from packets transmitted by the tags, or by using Wi-Fi Access points to report their location by measuring signals strength and transmissions. The wireless infrastructure used is the Cisco CMX solution with which all other components are compatible. For augmenting the infrastructure and for precise determination of movement of patient, personnel, or equipment past a specific entry/exit point, the solution includes a Chokepoint Exciter. The software application provides location based visualization, reporting and management of assets and personnel, and all the features of the solution described above. The software provides an easy web based access from any type of device – desktop or mobile.

Access Points

Patient

Control House

Visualization & Analytics

Cisco Controller

Cisco MSE/CMX

RTLS Server

Mobile

Tablet

Laptop

LAN

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Solution

The Precise Protect™ solution address these challenges faced in the healthcare industry. It combines innovative hardware components built with the company’s own industry leading wireless MCUs and a compre-hensive software platform that provides location visualization, analytics, alerts, and more.

Staff Equipment

Bed

Precise Protect Solution Components

WM7 Personnel Tag / Wearables

The WM7 tag has an employee ID badge form factor which is suitable for tracking personnel with multiple features such as motion detection, multi-col-ored LEDs, and two-way communication options. The WM7 contains a rechargeable battery.

WM6 Asset Tag

The WM6 tag is suitable for tracking a variety of devices and equipment using multiple attachments such as tamper sensing, motion detection, and multi-colored LEDs. It contains user replaceable batteries that can last up to three years, depending on operating conditions.

WM-CPE Chokepoint Exciters

The WM-CPE Chokepoint Exciter is a fully Wi-Fi compliant device that wakes up RTLS tags and registers their presence. It uses Wi-Fi packets to wake up WiseMote™ tags in the vicinity, collects information on them, and forwards the information to a designated server.

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WMO Configurator

The WiseMote™ tags are wirelessly configured through the WM0 Configu-rator, which enables the wireless configuration of the tags brought to its vicinity. It communicates to a controlling PC via a standard ethernet interface. The web based browser configuration utility avoids the need to install any software on the PC.

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