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Arnold Milstein, MD, to Keynote Second Annual Indoor Location Leadership Conference, November 3 & 4, Andover, Mass.
Radianse, Inc. sponsors conference to discuss how active-RFID indoor positioning can be used to improve patient flow, efficiency and overall healthcare safety and quality
Lawrence, MA, October 26, 2004 - Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, co-founder of the Leapfrog Group, MedPAC Commissioner, and one of the country's leading healthcare visionaries, will give the keynote address at the Second Annual Indoor Location Leadership Conference to be held Nov. 3 & 4 in Andover, Mass. Hosted by Radianse Inc., the conference brings together end-users, application providers and thought leaders to share ideas on how the application of indoor positioning solutions (IPS) in healthcare can improve patient flow, efficiency and overall healthcare safety and quality.
Hospitals and health systems have shown increasing interest in IPS, which uses technology such as active-RFID (radio frequency identification) to track equipment, staff and patients within a facility, providing information hospitals can use to improve asset utilization and resource management. Radianse created the leadership conference as a way to help hospitals navigate through the hype associated with any new technology and help providers and application partners consider all the interdependent factors that lead to strategically sound IPS implementations. To this end, case studies and presentations are organized around three tracks: applications, economics and technology.
Dr. Milstein will kick off the conference with a discussion of the potential for information technologies to positively impact U.S healthcare, including how use of IPS in high-value applications like workflow and asset management is already generating impressive return on investment for healthcare providers, patients and insurers.
Purchasers and consumers are reshaping healthcare into a model that has made IT-enabled process reengineering an imperative for any healthcare organization to remain viable, said Dr. Milstein. Indoor positioning systems are an example of an IT solution that not only breaks the box of the old model but creates new levels of quality and efficiency in care.
Michael Dempsey, chief executive and technology officer of Radianse, said, "Few individuals offer the insight and credibility that Arnie Milstein can in addressing how healthcare should leverage indoor positioning to make care safer, more effective and less costly. We believe the best way to achieve these goals is to keep the technology and the process open: That's why our solution is designed so any device can be tracked, every patient protected and any application can use identity and time-stamped location and why we will continue to host this conference regularly to exchange ideas and foster new ones."
Speakers from leading hospitals and health systems like Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, Mississippi Baptist and Ascension Health will discuss how they selected and evaluated an IPS and the financial and clinical benefits they have accrued. Other experts will discuss automated asset and bed management, tracking orthopedic patients, ROI models and alternate funding methods for IPS. As part of the technical track, Dempsey will review the potential for IPS to enable context-sensitive medicine, defined as using identity, time and location data to automatically trigger pre-determined responses from equipment and applications. There will also be technical presentations on XML, spacial and temporal resolution and an overview of various IPS technologies.
About Radianse
Radianse provides intelligent solutions for healthcare by automatically collecting and processing real-time location data, movement history, associations and relationship information on high-value assets, including equipment, patients and staff. Our patented algorithms and advanced software applications help optimize business processes, enhance patient throughput, reduce costs and improve operational efficiency within healthcare. Radianse products have been installed in more than 75 hospitals.