While RTLS allows staff to do more with less, it can also ensure healthcare professionals are better protected. When RTLS are integrated directly with staff badges, a subtle press of a button enables a discreet trigger of a real-time duress notification that shares the staff member’s precise location. This ensures security personnel can provide assistance as quickly as possible. Real-time map views, immediate alerts, and location updates create a safe environment for staff, elevating a culture of safety, peace of mind, and efficiency.

Enter the future of hospitals step by step
The last few years have caused significant disruption and constraint of budgets, manpower, and resources all throughout healthcare facilities, from the bedside to the back office. As such, healthcare professionals and administrative employees are asked to operate at the top of their licenses. Providing the necessary support is key to achieving high-quality patient care, staff satisfaction, and overall retention, along with increasing an organization’s bottom line. RTLS can provide the support, visibility, and return on investment (ROI) that deliver a near immediate positive impact for healthcare professionals, decision-makers, and the facility.
Even so, it often isn’t cost-effective or practical to gain visibility into every tool or mobile medical equipment, all at once. To guarantee a better price for these technologies, decision-makers can prioritize and narrow down the locations that require deeper insight. While this approach won’t paint a full picture of enterprise visibility, it will provide a lower cost-to-entry and showcase the value of implementing the technology. In the end, ROI and stakeholder buy-in will benefit and future expansion to other areas of the facility will be easily justified.

To decide, select the top five assets the team is looking to locate and secure consensus from departments such as the equipment distribution, supply chain, and nursing. Make sure the collective group agrees that the selected equipment focuses on items in the highest demand, ones that can be a struggle to keep in stock, and constantly run low. This approach enables facilities to focus on the clinical assets and locations that make the most sense for “Phase 1” and outfit the key areas in the equipment workflow at a lower price point. This also allows the implementation and use cases to be up and running quicker and, as teams recognize the value, the solutions can be expanded in a seamless manner to the larger organization in the future.

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