The IoT technology and location sensors behind RTLS technology feature wearable badges and tags to provide immediate, comprehensive enterprise visibility for the precise location of equipment, colleagues, or patients (including newborns) to improve and streamline workflow. These location technologies are crucial for automating staff workflows and offering insights that help minimize bottlenecks and inefficiencies. By streamlining these processes, they allow staff to focus more on their core passion—providing exceptional patient care.

With the use of RTLS to assign badges upon patient check-in, advanced workflow platforms can produce a major impact on non-clinical manual tasks. The system provides automatic updates on patient status, estimated wait times, and display boards that offer a clear, real-time overview of each patient’s journey, enhancing operational efficiency and staff coordination. The technology ensures that teams always remain on the same page with minute-by-minute visibility to continuously measure interactions and roadblocks. For deeper insights, RTLS provides real-time maps of rooms and bays, detailed information on medical equipment locations and usage, and alerts for maintenance and cleaning needs, helping to further minimize bottlenecks. With asset management RTLS tags affixed to equipment, staff can swiftly pinpoint the exact location of any tool within seconds, ensuring they can quickly access the resources needed to deliver high-quality, timely care.


Secure unified platforms to simplify and streamline
While healthcare leadership considers the best fit for their team’s ongoing needs, there are top solution providers that supply software applications with a secure, high-performance cloud environment. The secure cloud-based software simplifies implementation and maintenance, reducing costs and easing the labor typically associated with physical servers. It also proactively provides automatic application updates throughout the entire lifecycle of the product. As decision-makers review SaaS options, choose one that provides unified access and Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities for a comprehensive suite of RTLS solution applications (i.e., Duress, Asset Tracking, Clinical Workflow, Hand Hygiene, etc.) and system management tools. With cloud-based systems, essential functions such as user management, staff assignments, facility maps, site structures, and device configurations are performed on a single platform. This integration enhances operational efficiency and provides a more cohesive management experience. As healthcare leaders assess various SaaS options, they should prioritize solutions that offer robust administrative capabilities, allowing for seamless handling of complex RTLS programs.

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