Solutions for Healthcare Organizations

Our RFID enabled asset management solutions are designed to effectively manage equipment assets that have a direct impact on clinical operations and performance, as well as tracking patients and staff. We understand the problems associated with tracking assets in a healthcare environment and are focused on delivering solutions to improve asset throughput and utilization, reduce asset loss and shrinkage, manage asset inspection and preventive maintenance (IPM), improve regulatory compliance and reporting, and increase patient and staff safety and satisfaction.  We will work with you to assess your current asset management program, analyze data for a total and reliable cost benefit analysis, and tailor an innovative solution that ensures a return on investment. Let us help you choose the right asset inventory and tracking solution for your asset management needs.

Asset Tracking

Our asset tracking solutions can be integrated into your back-office software applications, providing an automated method to capture asset data. Using active and passive RFID tags, systems can be set to send alerts on predefined events and the data gathered can also be used to assess an asset's movements, its integration and usage within the health care facility, and many other aspects, helping you identify areas in need of improvement. This provides you with real-time visibility into productivity and accountability, maximizing the returns on your current equipment assets, making this a very cost effective investment.

Applications:

• IPM and Recall Management - Our asset tracking system minimizes time-consuming searches for equipment that is due for IPM or that has been the subject of a safety recall. In addition to yielding significant time savings, it can help ensure that all scheduled IPM’s are performed in a timely manner to improve patient care and safety. In addition, it will assist the hospital in complying with Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) equipment management requirements.

• Clinical use - Our asset tracking system can also be used to assist clinical staff members who need equipment for clinical use. By helping clinicians quickly locate devices, this system will minimize delays that can adversely affect patient care and safety.

• Equipment Processing / Patient Transportation Use – Our asset tracking system can also help improve mobile equipment (such as infusion pumps or wheelchairs) throughput in certain care areas and increase inpatient bed availability (depending on whether and to what extent throughput is being hampered by an inability to find mobile equipment).

• Inventory Optimization – Our asset tracking system gathers the data necessary to analyze asset utilization and movement to improve equipment use, distribution, and processing. For this application, historical location data is used to produce summaries of asset use, movement, and processing patterns. Gathering and analyzing this data about asset utilization and movement will help you better determine optimal inventory levels and also streamline equipment processing, both of which can lead to significant cost savings. As a result, inventory managers are better prepared to respond to nurses’ requests for units and less likely to rent equipment to supplement their in-house stocks.

• Regulatory Compliance - Get unparalleled regulatory compliance assurance related to enterprise capital assets. Having a better handle on the location and inventory of all your capital assets will assist in complying with laws, regulations, and JCAHO requirements.

• Theft and Loss Prevention - Add a layer of security around asset location by sending alerts whenever a tagged asset leaves or enters certain areas. This can be used to safeguard high-value assets, as well as the information stored on assets that contain proprietary or critical data. Additionally, the system can identify exactly who the asset was last used or moved by, thus preventing the theft or streamlining the recovery process.

Asset Inventory

An efficient equipment assets management program starts with an accurate inventory of your equipment assets. First we perform a comprehensive inventory while simultaneously applying barcodes, combined barcode and passive RFID tags, passive RFID tags or active RFID tags to your assets (depending on which auto-identification and data capture system you utilize). During the tagging process, we also gather actual physical inventory information such as equipment description, manufacturer, model and other valuable attributes. Then we perform a floor-to-book reconciliation to validate your records and provide you with the infrastructure and services to accurately manage your data in the future. The result is a system that will provide you with absolute confidence in your fixed asset ledger, helping you make better business and clinical decisions while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Applications:

• Inventory Validation – Our fixed/stationery equipment tracking technology will provide the tools that enable quick wall-to-wall inventories of tagged physical assets This significantly reduces the cost of future physical inventories and allows for asset movement (due to replacement, etc) without requiring additional resources to find them during inventory.

• Inventory Reconciliation - During the tagging process, we also gather actual physical inventory information such as equipment description, manufacturer, model and other valuable attributes. This can be used to perform a floor-to-book reconciliation that ensures that your physical inventory matches your financial reports.

Employee and Visitor Tracking

Monitor the whereabouts of doctors, nurses and other critical staff in the hospital to improve patient care. Monitor the location of visitors and even alert management when visitors or patients enter unauthorized areas or handle certain assets. This solution also provides the location of employees, patients and visitors in the event of a man-made or natural emergency or disaster situation.

Employee Time and Attendance Tracking

Automate the tracking of average daily employee attendance, as well as notify management when employees are not in the facility by importing information in the employee-information databases.

Patient Tracking

Patient and staff tracking can be used to analyze and improve throughput in patient care areas. Patients who’s whereabouts must always be known, such as infants, Alzheimer’s, or psychiatric patients, can wear active RFID tags affixed to wristbands, ankle bracelets, badges, or other secure form factors. The tags can be programmed to interact with hospital information systems for automating administrative tasks like admissions, transfers and discharges and/or security systems to trigger alarms and other security events when a patient enters or exits a specific area.

Surgical Instrument Tracking

Queralt provides "through-metal" low frequency RFID tags for surgical instruments, trays and containers, along with RFID readers to communicate with these tags. This technology allows you to track containers or trays through every critical stage of sterilization and/or decontamination process and gives the exact location of your equipment at any time. Queralt also offers other dedicated solutions for tracking navigation, endoscopes, orthopedic devices, implantable medical devices, power tools, washers/disinfectors or autoclaves.

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