Healthcare teams and patients benefit from workflow visibility
Providing healthcare professionals with comprehensive visibility boosts team empowerment and efficiency by securely monitoring every aspect of the care journey within a facility or unit. This transparency ensures that each staff member is aware of which tasks to prioritize, leading to more effective and coordinated patient care.

For instance, at a top academic health system in North Carolina's emergency department, staff quickly collect the necessary information to register patients. They then log into their RTLS workflow platform, select a call button, and patients are instantly informed of the next steps in their care process. Facilities that have adopted this visibility asset observe improvements in wait time, communication, recognition, and responsiveness – all contributing to a better patient experience and operational performance.
RTLS with a BLE multi-mode system, offering hybrid architecture, can significantly boost efficiency for organizations aiming to balance precise location tracking with cost-effectiveness. By partnering with a solution provider that offers this advanced technology, teams can seamlessly switch between BLE and other, more-precise, visibility systems based on the specific needs of various departments. This system’s interoperability enables healthcare facilities to utilize a mixed RTLS infrastructure within a single department, across different buildings, or throughout an entire hospital campus, optimizing both operational insight and resource management.

Leverage actionable data to improve the human experience
By automating these tasks with RTLS cloud-based solutions, clinicians can devote more time to patient care, reduce stress around equipment location, gain insights on availability and status, and operate at the top of their licenses. With built-in patient flow reports, organizations can monitor and respond to crucial metrics such as patient volume, length of stay, room utilization, patient wait times at each clinical milestone, and time spent with the provider. This eliminates the need for providers to inquire about the location of crucial equipment or wait for manual status updates on patients, allowing for more efficient daily workflow management and timely care with the proper tools.

About the author: Mary Jagim is an experienced leader in healthcare consulting with an expertise in real-time location systems, emergency nursing, healthcare operations, and public policy. In 2001, she served as the national president of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and led the development of ENA’s Key Concepts in ED Management Course and Guidelines in Emergency Department Staffing Tool. She was also a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Study on the Future of Emergency Care and the National Quality Forum E.D. Consensus Standards Committee as the Principal Consultant for CenTrak, Mary works with healthcare organizations to leverage real-time technologies coupled with process enhancements to improve the patient experience, patient and staff safety and workflow efficiency. Having implemented hundreds of real-time location system projects in the last 15 years, Mary is one of the most experienced clinical leaders and implementers in Healthcare RTLS in the world and developed the “Jagim Lean RTLS Model for Healthcare.” She also currently serves as a member of the IoT Community, Healthcare Advisory Board.

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