AeroScout, the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility for the healthcare industry, working with Dräger, today announced that St. Trudo Hospital in Belgium is extending the use of its AeroScout Healthcare Visibility solution to include tracking the location of patients and Wi-Fi devices. Central among the tracked Wi-Fi units are Dräger’s Infinity® M300 patient-worn vital signs monitors. With today’s announcement, St. Trudo is building on the success of its existing AeroScout implementation to further improve patient safety and staff satisfaction.
St. Trudo has been using AeroScout’s Wi-Fi RFID solution to improve the management of critical medical equipment and to wirelessly monitor the temperatures in key areas of the hospital. Recently, St. Trudo leveraged its existing AeroScout Healthcare Visibility solution and its Cisco Unified Wireless Network to add the ability to immediately locate ambulatory patients and Wi-Fi devices. Patients are tracked either by having AeroScout Tags or by wearing Dräger Wi-Fi Telemetry Monitors. Since AeroScout solutions track Wi-Fi devices without needing tags or additional software of any kind, all patients wearing Dräger’s monitors can be located. This allows patients to walk around the hospital while still being monitored and tracked. Since Wi-Fi is prevalent in the hospital, patients are able to leave their unit and even their floor while still being visible to nurses and staff. This not only increases patient safety, but also patient and nurse satisfaction.
“Every project we execute and every technology we implement is done with the goal of improving patient care and operational efficiency,” said Daniel Loos, Manager, Information Technology, at Regional Hospital St. Trudo. “AeroScout’s solution has proven to be a very effective way for us to manage and better utilize our medical equipment. We’re now leveraging the investments in our AeroScout solution, Dräger patient monitors and Wi-Fi network to further enhance patient safety and comfort.”