Ekahau Location-Based Safety and Temperature Alerting Improves Staff and Patient Safety
Written by Ekahau Inc.
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Ekahau Location-Based Safety and Temperature Alerting Improves Staff and Patient Safety at Memorial Healthcare
Ekahau ensures staff and patient safety at
Michigan's Memorial Healthcare with their Real-Time Location System
(RTLS) enabling wireless caregiver alerting with two-way communications
and automated temperature monitoring over Cisco Wi-Fi
RESTON, Va., March 11, 2013 -- Ekahau Inc., the leader in Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) announced today that Memorial Healthcare in Shiawassee County, Michigan, deployed its Wi-Fi-based RFID staff safety alert and wireless temperature monitoring solution to improve staff and patient safety.
As a leading 150-bed hospital with over 1,000 employees, 196,000
outpatients and 4,600 inpatients, staff and patient safety are top
priorities at Memorial Healthcare. While the hospital had a legacy
emergency alert system in place, Ekahau RTLS offers reliable, real-time
location visibility over the existing Cisco Wi-Fi network and can
readily expand to enable asset and patient tracking in the future.
By giving Memorial Healthcare's security teams real-time visibility
into staff locations during emergencies, the hospital expects to reduce
response times to staff duress incidents logged by the housekeeping
staff, techs, interns, doctors and nurses working in its 10,000 square
foot behavioral health unit. Employees in distress simply pull down on
their re-chargeable Wi-Fi safety badges worn on break-away lanyards, and
their location appears on badge tags worn by the police and other staff
closest to the emergency. Ekahau badges offer 2-way communications via badge LEDs, and hospital security teams
can even monitor staff entry and exit into restricted geo-fenced zones
via text and email alerts.
Memorial Healthcare also uses Ekahau Wi-Fi-based temperature sensors
and Ekahau Vision™ software to reliably monitor commercial refrigeration
units housing blood, tissue and medications. Ekahau RTLS ensures that
near-breach temperatures trigger text and email alerts before spoilage
impacts patient safety. In addition, Ekahau Vision™ software
automatically logs all temperatures for Joint Commission compliance
documentation without the use of manual logs that are prone to human
error.
"Keeping caregivers visible and monitoring patient consumables using
our Cisco Wireless LAN is game-changing. Ekahau RTLS is cost-effective
to implement over Cisco Wi-Fi, reliable and instantly makes staff and
patients feel safer," notes Frank Fear, CIO at Memorial Healthcare.
"Ekahau is proud to help Memorial Healthcare ensure staff and patient
safety with location-based alert and sensor solutions that leverage the
hospital's existing wireless LAN investment," states Mark Norris, President and CEO of Ekahau.
About Memorial Healthcare
Memorial Healthcare is a 150-bed facility with a medical staff of
over 170 providers. With more than 1,000 employees, Memorial Healthcare
is the largest employer in Shiawassee County.
Our people are our most valuable resource. Their dedication to caring
and high-tech knowledge are what differentiate us from all other health
systems in the region.
About Ekahau Inc.
Ekahau Inc. is the performance leader in providing Wi-Fi-based
Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS). Ekahau RTLS includes Ekahau Vision™
and Ekahau RTLS Controller software as well as a broad selection of
Wi-Fi-based smart tags which give staff and managers unprecedented
visibility into the location, condition and status of assets, people and
workflows. Thousands of Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, and other
facilities rely on Ekahau's patented technology to reveal business
intelligence that drives decision-making. Ekahau partners include
leading wireless software developers, systems integrators, and WLAN
providers. Learn more about Innovation Through Location at: www.ekahau.com or on the Ekahau Blog, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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