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Elpas Asset
Tracking Solutions
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The problem of managing patient care
assets is challenging healthcare professionals worldwide.
Financial managers, operation administrators as well as primary
medical providers all agree that keeping track of mobile assets
year round, 24-hours a day, is essential for organizational
performance, patient care, regulatory compliance & legal
exposure.
Today’s, modern medium-sized, 200-bed
facility typically has millions of dollars of owned or leased
mission-critical equipment in service. In any corridor, patient
care devices ranging from IV pumps, ventilators and x-ray
machines to other mobile assets such as wheelchairs, stretchers
and gurneys, are either moving from one place to another, or are
parked along a wall waiting to go somewhere.
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Asset Tracking Brochure - (PDF) |
Overloaded support
personnel, nurses and even doctors, waste time searching and
retrieving misplaced and overlooked patient care equipment.
Maintenance staff also loses productivity by searching for
specific items in need of repair or calibration. Typically,
searches are random, unorganized and in some cases may adversely
affect patient treatment. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment are unaccounted for each
year, it simply gets misplaced, or stolen. Assets are often underutilized or
unutilized due to departmental hoarding. To compensate, many healthcare
facilities have found find it simpler to just over-procure.
With
an Elpas Asset Management Solution you can use active RFID/RTLS technology to manage and reduce your asset
utilization challenges.
The
Elpas suite of asset tracking applications include easy to implement, use
and maintain solutions for:
Equipment
Maintenance
Elpas
Asset Management Solutions
can facilitate the rapid location and status check of medical assets in need
of preventative maintenance or servicing.
In many cases equipment is not
maintained on time since assets cannot be found, leading to non compliance
and quality of care issues. With Elpas 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.
Equipment Maintenance Application Note - (PDF)
Asset Optimization
Elpas
Asset Management Solutions offers
healthcare facilities efficient ways
to save time and expense by
optimizing
utilization rates
of valuable mobile medical assets.
The
inefficient management and distribution of patient-care resources can
cripple a hospital's operational effectiveness. Using Elpas, caregivers can
identify and locate the nearest available piece of equipment, thus reducing
time spent searching halls and rooms for critical patient-care assets. Hospitals can
acquire real-time
inventory counts at the click of a button, par level management is automated
and material management and distribution services can receive automated
alerts. In addition, equipment availability trends and utilization can be identified and analyzed.
Shrinkage
Prevention
Elpas
Asset Management Solutions
can help to protect your mobile assets against theft. Should
someone try to remove any protected healthcare asset , Elpas, will generate
an alarm and display the exact location of
the asset.
Temperature
Monitoring
Elpas
Asset Management Solutions offer
an automated, cost-effective way to help maintain the correct storage
temperatures of pharmaceuticals and blood supplies in hospital fridges.
Remote monitoring with Elpas ensures all temperature critical merchandise is
monitored and regulated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Email/SMS alerts are
automatically generated and sent when temperature conditions vary outside
pre-defined ranges, allowing corrective action to be taken. Historic data is
continuously recorded so that daily reports, monthly summaries and reports
on demand can be generated in support of compliance regulations. Elpas can
also actively monitor personnel access and send notification alerts if
access is out-of-hours or a storage ridge door is inadvertently left ajar.
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