Healthcare organizations today face numerous challenges due to lack of visibility – low utilization rates, over rental and over purchasing of medical equipment, non compliance with regulatory mandates, inefficient use of staff time, loss and theft of equipment and more. AeroScout leverages the existing hospital Wi-Fi network to provide visibility over a single unified solution at the lowest cost of ownership, combining a wide variety of location, status and condition information about valuable medical assets, patients and staff. Our solutions span all hospital departments and serve the needs of clinical staff, IT, materials management, clinical and biomedical engineers, laboratory personnel and others.
AeroScout is the chosen solution for over 100 hospitals around the world and the only Wi-Fi Visibility solutions provider endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA).
AeroScout's suite of healthcare solutions includes:
Equipment Maintenance:
Clinical and bio-med engineers maintain thousands of medical devices periodically. In many cases, a high percentage of the equipment is not maintained on time since assets cannot be found, leading to non compliance and quality of care issues. With the AeroScout solution, any tagged equipment throughout the hospital campus can be located according to preventive maintenance pickup schedules, and automated maintenance alerts can also include equipment location and status. The solution can also be integrated to any existing clinical engineering system.
Asset Management:
Mobile medical equipment inventory management poses many challenges: clinical staff is constantly searching for medical devices such as infusion pumps and wheelchairs, wait times for ordered equipment are long, clean utility rooms do not have the appropriate par levels for equipment, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of assets are lost and stolen on an annual basis and assets have low utilization rates. With a visibility solution hospitals can automate all the inventory management and receive real-time inventory counts at the click of a button, full control of rental equipment inventory is achieved, par level management is automated and material management and distribution services can receive automated alerts. In addition, trends in equipment availability and utilization can be easily identified and analyzed.
Temperature Monitoring:
Lab, pharmacy and nursing staff are required to perform manual temperature monitoring and logging several times a day on hundreds of refrigerators and freezers (i.e. storage of blood, organs, drugs, vaccines, tissue samples or food) to ensure safe temperature ranges. The Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies require maintaining daily records of the temperature logs. AeroScout offers the simplest and most cost efficient solution for temperature monitoring that requires no hard wires and no additional network infrastructure. AeroScout's temperature sensing Wi-Fi tags are battery powered and can be easily placed in each hospital refrigerator or freezer sending the temperature reads over the Wi-Fi network every few minutes. AeroScout's MobileView software sends out alerts on exceeded temperature ranges, displays graphical reports of temperature trends and includes an event dashboard and corrective action logging.
Workflow and Resource Management:
In OR and ER/ED environments, knowing the exact location and status of patients, physicians, available rooms and key clinical equipment is critical to improving patient care, automating departmental workflow and increasing throughput. In these departments it is important to be able to get not only to a room or zone level accuracy, but also to a bay level accuracy (i.e. in Pre-Op or Recovery areas), and the AeroScout solution is the only Wi-Fi solution enabling this. In addition, all the location and status data can be integrated with relevant OR/ER information systems, enabling to prioritize and automate procedures and manage resources efficiently.
