Awarepoint product showcase aami 2010.06 - gcs

KEEP EVERYTHING ON-SITE, IN-SIGHT: 

NOTHING MAKES IT EASIER THAN AN ENTERPRISE-WIDE

REAL-TIME LOCATION SYSTEM Product Showcase

by George Sun, Vice President of Sales

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RTLS is an acronym for Real-time Location Systems Analogous to indoor GPS, RTLS solutions are used to:

› Track and monitor assets and patients in hospitals› Provide awareness to improve processes and workflows› Provide valuable location, status and movement data to

clinicians and healthcare administrators

What is RTLS?

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Skytron: Distribution | Contracting | Finance• Serving hospitals since 1972• Local distributor representation nationwide• National headquarters, Grand Rapids, MI

Awarepoint: Network Hardware | Maintenance | Software | Client Success• As of 06.01.10, represents largest hospital RTLS

client base in the industry:• 61 enterprise-wide hospital sites installed• 81 hospital sites contracted• Contracted 131,000+ healthcare assets over

nearly 40 million square feet nationwide

Who We Are: Skytron and Awarepoint

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Who We Do Business With:Representative Client RTLS Partners

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Quality of Care› Limited Staff & Patient Time Together, Bad

Public Image, Long Order to Care Delivery Time, Declining Satisfaction

Cost of Service› Excessive Rentals; Poor Asset Utilization;

Loss, Stolen, Misplaced Equipment; Time-Consuming Temperature Monitoring; Overburdened Staff

Risk › Inadequate Regulatory Compliance, Poor

Recall and PM Management, Reduced Temperature Monitoring Compliance

Revenue Creation› High Diversions/ LWOT, Frequent OR Case

Delays, Delayed Bed Turnover, Ineffective Discharge

What’s the Problem? Inadequate Resource Visibility Impacts:

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Map Resource Location› Where resources are located (assets, people)

Monitor Resource Status› What resources are doing

Measure Resource Utilization› When resources are used

Improve Resource Processes› To impact financial and clinical outcomes

The Solution: Enterprise RTLS Allows You To:

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Instantly boost productivity, and ensure clean working equipment is available on-time, every time.

› Locate Equipment Enterprise-Wide Minimize equipment out-of-service time, reduce staff time

and frustration “hunting” ; reduce potential clinical incidents

› Improve Preventive Maintenance Provide date-specific alerting and pinpoint location of

asset anywhere in the facility

› Speed Critical Asset Recall Immediately locate equipment to remove from operation

or conduct required safety adjustment

› Ease Temperature Monitoring Obtain insight into current temperature; reduce burden on

staff with manual logs; improve response time

Clinical Engineering | Biomedical ProfessionalsWhat’s In It For You?

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Hospital Financial Impact:Partial Example of First Year Savings

Asset Management Financial Benefits (assumes 2,380 assets | 880,000 square feet)

Reduction in equipment rentals $90,828

Decrease in equipment budget – increased utilization $121,960

Reduction in lost, misplaced items $207,057

Reduction in loss of temperature sensitive assets – temperature monitoring

$129,000

Total Benefits $548,845

Costs: Full managed service; month-month rental $428,400

Hard Dollar Annual Value $120,445

Quality, Safety, Efficiency, Compliance, Satisfaction

RTLS provides far more than just a financial ROI – one that has to do with nurses and clinical support staff

and not taking time away from their ability to care.

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So How Do You Get There?

Enterprise-Wide

Coverage

Enterprise-Wide Room

Level Accuracy

Non-Disruptive Installation

and Low Maintenanc

e

Standards-Based Inter-operability

Proven, Flexible, Low Risk Business

Model

5 Critical Success Factors

1 2 3 4 5

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How It Works

Tags to track assets: Sensors that detect tags & wirelessly communicate their location & status:

Software to search for assets:

Reporting analytics, alerting and monitoring tools:

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Bottom Line: The 5 “Rights” of RTLS

Right ResourcesRight PlaceRight Time

Right PatientRight Thing to Do

-Terri Simpson-Tucker, Assistant AdministratorKaiser San Jose Medical Center