Mar 18 2010
Rauland-Borg, the
leader in Healthcare Nurse Call Systems and Visonic Technologies a global
provider of scalable Active RFID/RTLS based safety, security and management
solutions for the healthcare industry announce the integration of Elpas RTLS
technology with the Responder 5 Nurse Call System. This joint collaboration
between Visonic Technologies and Rauland-Borg provides Responder 5 with
real-time staff presence functionality throughout the hospital to room and
sub-room level accuracy, automatic visual indication that a patient's needs
are being responded to and automatic nurse call cancellation.
The ability to locate caregivers is one of the primary challenges
hospitals face when it comes to streamlining the delivery of safe and
effective care. Improving staff response times to emergencies and special
situations is a great example of how Elpas RTLS technology using existing
wired or wireless Ethernet/Wi-Fi networks can be applied to benefit hospitals
using the Responder 5 Nurse Call system. 'Knowing the location of the
required caregiver or location of where the medical incident is occurring to
room level and with sub-room level precision in real-time, can mean a world
of difference to the medical outcome" said Harry Murray, President Visonic
Technologies America. "Besides improving the quality of patient care, the
combination of Elpas RTLS with Responder 5 will also help hospitals reduce
the amount of manual reporting required from staff and facilitate care giver
guideline compliance.
Hospitals may easily leverage their Elpas RTLS investment to enhance
other areas of patient and personnel safety including infant/baby protection
in maternity wards, staff attack/duress alerting and wandering patient
supervision. Elpas Active RFID/RTLS can also be scaled to manage mobile
medical assets in order to reduce shrinkage and lower maintenance related
labor costs without degradation to RTLS Responder-5 functionality.
SOURCE Visonic Technologies
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