Transforming Healthcare with Information technology Improvising Healthcare using Wireless Technology. Impetech’s – Next generation HMIS
Aug 16, 2015
Transforming Healthcare with Information technology
Improvising Healthcare using Wireless Technology.
Impetech’s – Next generation HMIS
Managing Staff Workflow
• Improve work flow of nursing staff
ID badges with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that works with the hospital’s Wi-Fi network. The tags track the movement of nurses throughout their shift.
Tracking Medical Equipment
• Wireless RFID technology now allows hospitals to track not only the real-time location of critical equipment, but also the status or condition of the equipment.
• For example: it is possible to know if an item is in use or idle, or if it has gone through the sterilization process.
• This eliminates hours of searching and allows clinicians and nursing staff to focus on caring for patients
Automating Environmental Monitoring
• By attaching sensors to wireless RFID tags that can send temperature or humidity data over Wi-Fi.
• Hospitals can record temperatures at regular intervals and be automatically alerted if conditions exceed a predetermined range.
• This translates into tremendous cost savings because it helps prevent spoilage of expensive tissue or medicines or failure of servers, and it supports compliance and reporting
Increasing Security
• Infant protection system to help prevent child abductions . Protects more than 1.5 million infants worldwide each year.
• ID badges with an integrated RFID tag.
• Whenever a staff member enters a patient’s room, her photo, name and job function appears on the patient’s in-room screen.
• This allows the patient to easily and positively identify staff and it lets the patient’s family know who has visited the patient and when.
Monitoring Hand Hygiene Compliance
• Sensors in soap and hand sanitizer dispensers that communicate with RFID tags in staff identification badges can now determine if and when staff sanitize their hands.
• This not only aids in regulatory compliance and reporting, but also helps the hospital understand behaviours and improve processes, which can ultimately save lives.
Analysing Operational Data
• Data analytics to improve hospital operations.
• All of the wireless sensors hospitals are using generate tremendous amounts of data.
• This data can be mined to provide new insights into hospital operations