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From Asset Management, Ohio Hospital Improves Asset Tracking with RTLS The Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) has deployed an automated asset tracking system from Radianse to help staff manage more than 1,600 pieces of medical equipment.
The 222-bed, acute care hospital in Portsmouth, Ohio, has deployed the Radianse real-time location platform and Reveal Asset Tracking system across the facility. The system provides room-level location data, and has improved equipment management, recall management, and asset utilization. SOMC first began looking at RFID systems more than ten years ago, but the technology was too costly at the time. "At the time, the cost was over $1 million, and we just couldn't justify that," says Greg Malone, supervisor of the biomedical engineering department. A new vice president at the hospital, however, made the asset management system a priority. According to Malone, the cost of a tracking system has since fallen to less than half of what it was more than a decade ago, which allowed the hospital to move forward with the technology. SOMC selected Radianse from a pool of several vendors based, in part, on its installed base in the healthcare industry. "Radianse was so mindful of the patient care environment that they set themselves apart early," says Penny Cooper, SOMC's Administrative Director of Worksite and Patient Safety. "We put them through the paces regardless. The technology impacts virtually every department, so we took a multi-functional approach to vendor selection. In a head-to-head competition, Radianse was the choice for every department involved -- with accuracy, automation and a shared commitment to safety among the deciding factors." Continue to full article at www.assetmgmtnews.com ...
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