RealTime Location Solutions
Achieve operational excellence. Outperform in patient care.
RealTime Location Solutions (RTLS) utilize ready-to-deploy or individually customized digital technology solutions to automatically identify and track the location of assets, patients1 or staff1 in real time. RTLS improve clinical and operational outcomes through real-time visualization and optimization of your performance.
Overview
RealTime Location Solutions helps you to:
Keeping track of your assets
Keeping track of assets in large healthcare organizations is a monumental task that often results in a decline in productivity and patient care.
Not having the equipment required in the correct place and at the right time can impact workflows and have severe consequences for the patient.
Not having the equipment required in the correct place and at the right time can impact workflows and have severe consequences for the patient.
Improve the patient experience
Designing a safe, comfortable patient experience based on trust from entering to leaving the facility poses a huge, but increasingly important challenge to healthcare providers.
Increase staff satisfaction
Complex routines and staff shortages lead to increased stress in day-to-day workforce connections and have negative impacts on staff performance and happiness at work.
A nurse spends 10–25 % of their time looking for other staff members.²
A nurse spends 10–25 % of their time looking for other staff members.²
Improve workflows and optimize clinical operations
As hospital departments get bigger and are equipped with more complex technology, complying with high standard regulations that entail manual processes become inconvenient, time-consuming, and prone to error.
This can lead to workflow inefficiencies, which are time-consuming and costly.
This can lead to workflow inefficiencies, which are time-consuming and costly.
Streamline operations with
RealTime Location Solutions (RTLS)
RealTime Location Solutions (RTLS)
Read our white paper to explore the multifaceted application areas and benefits of RTLS
beyond its earliest roles of asset tracking and management.
Our solutions deploy departmental or enterprise-wide digital technology to automatically identify and track the location of assets, patients1 or staff1 in real time to help understand and improve how your healthcare facility is performing.
Customized to your specific goals and needs:
- Ready-to-deploy departmental solutions
- Enduring enterprise-wide solutions
- 100+ use cases1
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We can manage the entire RTLS value chain to drive targeted results for your healthcare enterprise
RealTime Location Solutions are customized to your specific needs to create sustainable added value. They range from ready-to-deploy technical solutions, integrated into dedicated departmental processes, to holistic enterprise-wide solutions that cover various advanced use cases to manage and optimize performance across your entire healthcare institution.
Technologies
All our RTLS solutions use sensor-based tracking technology to identify places and locate objects, patients1 and staff1 in healthcare facilities.
In this service, all objects are equipped with sensor-based tags that use wireless transmission to continuously provide their location data to receivers installed throughout the institution.
The data are postprocessed into actionable insights, and visualized through virtual interfaces.
The data are postprocessed into actionable insights, and visualized through virtual interfaces.
Solution Design
RealTime Solution Design is the essential foundation for a successful deployment of RTLS. Our approach helps you discover and articulate the needs of your patients and staff. Together with you we develop a strategy to meet those needs with the right use case selection, and co-create a comprehensive plan to bring them to reality and achieve sustainable performance optimization.
Location Services
RealTime Location Services use sensor-based tracking technology to locate objects and help people find their way through your healthcare facility. Virtual interfaces show the real time tracking status of objects and provide data-based insights to optimize complex workflows, reduce costs, and improve care delivery.
RealTime Hospital Navigator is a mobile app that guides patients, visitors, and staff with step-by-step instructions through your institution’s personalized virtual map, showing important locations, such as examination rooms. Directions can be planned and set according to different criteria, e.g., to consider special routes for patients with disabilities.
Consulting & Transformation
RealTime Consulting & Transformation supports you in getting the most value from your RTLS implementation. Our Value Partners for Healthcare Consulting provide actionable insights on how to maximize value and derive excellence based on a deep understanding of the applications of RTLS technologies, advanced data analytics, lean methodologies, and operational expertise.
Customer Insights
Learn how your peers are driving operational excellence with RTLS
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Unlocking additional value with RTLS
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist located in the U.S. had the main challenge to optimize logistics, equipment, and patient flow. This made them look for an innovative way to improve clinical operations which they found in RealTime Location Solutions.
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This service is under development and not commercially available. Its future availability cannot be ensured
The products/features and/or service offerings (here mentioned) are not commercially available in all countries. If the services are not marketed in countries due to regulatory or other reasons, the service offering cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens Healthineers organization for further details.
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Frost and Sullivan/SBT: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8fe7/01063c512fe531be9374f0f6bcf00b5c0a22.pdf, Visited on 09/30/2020
