This webcast discussed wireless mobility in healthcare. It covered:
1. Key applications of active RFID in hospitals include real-time asset management, preventative maintenance, temperature monitoring, patient and staff safety, and workflow and resource management. Users include nurses, biomedical engineers, and on-call medical staff.
2. The advantages of using a Wi-Fi network for tracking assets and people throughout the hospital include leveraging the existing ubiquitous Wi-Fi infrastructure for both data and location services, keeping management and maintenance costs low, and providing a standard solution.
3. Hospitals are purchasing mobile clinical devices like the Motion Computing C5 for benefits like true mobile point-of-care, infection prevention,
12. Real-time Asset Management
Challenge
Maintaining par levels for equipment throughout the hospital departments
Efficient management of the decontamination process of medical devices
Equipment orders must be fulfilled on time so that not to delay procedures
and drug administration
Loss and theft of mobile devices
Low asset utilization rates result in excessive and unnecessary purchasing
and rental of medical devices
Solution
Automated real-time inventory and location reports
Full control of rental equipment inventory and items out for repair/maintenance
Automated par level maintenance and control of equipment at specific locations
(e.g. shortage/surplus of pumps in clean/soiled utility rooms and on medical
devices leaving the facility/area)
Identify trends in equipment availability and utilization
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13. Preventive Maintenance
Challenge
Patient equipment must be maintained periodically in order to have
highly functioning equipment for quality patient care and JACHO
regulatory compliance.
Equipment cannot be located on time leading to non compliance with
regulatory requirements
Valuable staff time spent on searching for assets due for PM
Solution
Tagged equipment is located immediately according to preventive maintenance
pickup schedule
Automated maintenance alerts include equipment location, enabling biomedical
engineers to perform work in a timely manner
Stored tag location and event history for audits
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14. Temperature Monitoring
Challenge
Nursing, lab and pharmacy staff must perform manual temperature monitoring
and logging several times a day (blood, drugs, vaccines, food, tissue samples)
JCAHO requires to maintain daily records and continuous temperature monitoring
for storage refrigerators and freezers
Logging mechanisms are unreliable (lost data and gaps in records) and utilize
labor inefficiently
Solution
Temperature Sensor Wi-Fi Tags placed in refrigerators provide
automated 24x7 constant temperature reads
No hard wires and easy to install
Alert on exceeded temperature readings
Maintain temperature historical and alerts data
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15. Patient & Staff Safety
Challenge
No effective way to determine the location of medical
emergencies that occur out-of-room
Hospital staff may often work with patients that pose
a risk to staff
At-risk patients (Psychiatric ward, Alzheimer, elderly, etc.)
wandering and elopement
Solution
Patients wear call-button tags, and press the button in case
of an emergency to signal medical staff immediately
Staff can carry call-button tags which they can
press upon encountering an emergency
Patient movement between zones (exit event), into a specific
restricted area (entrance event), or away from confined area
triggers immediate alert to closest on-call staff.
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16. Workflow & Resource Management
Challenge
Non optimal process & resource management results in patient, staff and
equipment delays in hospital departments (e.g. OR/ER)
Solution
Online equipment/staff/patient tracking required for procedures
Patient workflow tracking from admission to discharge
Alert prior to a procedure if any necessary equipment is missing
Location information is automatically sent to scheduling system, enabling
procedure prioritization in real-time based on location and status
Throughput analysis (wait times, bottlenecks, fixed asset utilization)
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17. Question 4
□ How do we get prepared to implement
mobile point of care?
18. Defining a Successful Project?
Include the Executives, Clinical
Leadership (CMO, CNO) and Technology
Define Clinical Goal(s)
Clinical Usability Project Management
Wireless Network Validation
Clinical Workflow Analysis (hardware &
software) (SSO, imaging, etc.)
Training & Support Strategy
Measurement and Reporting
Units & Peripherals Design
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19. Question 5
□ What is the next technology to make an
impact on Wireless LAN and when is it
coming?
23. Question 6
□ What are hospitals purchasing C5 for?
24. Motion C5 Clinical Outcomes Gained
Mobility – true mobile and wireless point of care
integrating pen w/o being tethered to a keyboard
or a WOW
• Reduce # steps a nurse takes during a shift
• Increase time a nurse spends with the patient
• Decrease errors (no duplicated entry/loss of data)
• Increased nursing satisfaction
Infection Prevention – Motion C5 industrial design
supports procedures to eliminate microbial threats
posed by keyboards within the clinical workflow
• Increase in staff and patient safety
• Increase quality of care
Vitals integration – fast realization of tangible
benefit for clinicians
• Decrease the delay in time between vitals & I/O
acquisition and availability in patient record
• Decrease errors (no duplicated entry/loss of data)
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25. Motion C5 Clinical Outcomes Gained
Patient identification – qualified access to patient
record
• Increase the speed and accuracy of charting
• Increase the % of charting and orders done bedside
Med Administration - enable 5 rights at bedside
without cart
• Increase adherence to 5 rights
• Decrease # separate devices necessary to support
workflow
Clinician Satisfaction – deploy technology and
define benefit
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26. Question 7
□ What are the advantages of using the Wi-Fi
network for tracking assets and people
throughout the hospital?
27. A Ubiquitous Standard Network for
Visibility
Healthcare visibility problems are distributed throughout the entire
hospital campus and outside hospitals
Requires a standard ubiquitous solution throughout the healthcare
facilities that will:
• Leverage existing networks
• Keep management and maintenance costs low
• Keep TCO as low as possible
Wi-Fi-based Active RFID
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28. Using Wi-Fi for Location
Non-Wi-Fi Infrastructure: Wi-Fi based Infrastructure:
The existing WLAN is the location
Single-purpose Active RFID
system, often without the need
readers for location add for additional hardware.
unnecessary infrastructure.
+ Data Services + Data Services
+ Voice Services + Voice Services
+ Location Services + Location Services
Fast ROI, ability to track Wi-Fi devices, no
+ Overhead, wiring, support x2 interoperability or interference issues
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29. How Does it Work?
Wi-Fi-Based Active RFID tags send a tiny wireless 802.11 signal at a regular
interval
Tag’s messages consume less than 1/2msec, tags do not associate with Wi-Fi access points
and do not require thousands of IP addresses
Signal is received by the Wi-Fi access points, and is sent to a Location Engine
The Location Engine determines the tag’s location, and sends it to the visibility
software
Visibility software uses location data to display maps and reports, enable
searches, create alerts, manage assets, etc.
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30. Question 8
□ What is the profile of a hospital or user of
mobility solutions?
31. Question & Answer Session
You can ask questions during the
presentation by using the link provided
in the Webcast Viewer.
