Posted April 13, 2006
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: New Products
U.S. and Korean Hospitals Roll Out Aeroscout RFID
AeroScout, a pioneer in the field of Enterprise Visibility Solutions, announced that Reading Hospital (Reading, PA), and Catholic Medical Center - KangNam St. Mary's Hospital (Seoul, Korea) each selected the AeroScout location-based solution to help accurately locate and optimize the use of their medical equipment assets for improved patient care, greater efficiency and lower costs. The AeroScout Wi-Fi-based Active RFID solution is integrated with the Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance and together they provide powerful asset management, reporting and visualization capabilities to customers in healthcare as well as many other different industries.
Both hospitals chose the AeroScout Wi-Fi-based Active RFID solution for its comprehensive feature-set, reliability and seamless integration with their Cisco Wi-Fi network infrastructure. With AeroScout long-life active RFID tags and AeroScout MobileView software integrated with the Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance — a key component of the Cisco Clinical Connection Suite — the location of any medical equipment, asset or person can be tracked in real-time. This valuable information can be easily accessed from a Web-based tool by hospital staff to improve operations and quality of service.
AeroScout MobileView also includes a comprehensive alert system which helps customers send automatic messages to hospital staff via email, phone, Web services and other methods to communicate changes in status, low asset utilization and long dwell times, among several other events.
Reading Hospital, in Reading, PA, has begun tracking infusion pumps using the AeroScout and Cisco location solution with integration services from InfoLogix. The hospital expects to benefit from increased utilization of pumps and reduced asset loss, resulting in significant annual savings in capital equipment costs.
By providing tight integration with Cisco, AeroScout enables customers to use their existing Cisco Wi-Fi network and Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance to facilitate the development of new and important business applications that help improve asset utilization and streamline business processes.
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