Asset tracking enables healthcare providers to know where critical and non-critical assets are located in real-time on a floor plan map. This includes items such as, beds, wheelchairs, infusion pumps and biometric monitors, among others. Staff, and high-risk patients, such as new-born babies, and elderly patients who may wander, can also be quickly located in real-time. Asset tracking also provides information about usage patterns – even when the equipment is not in use. Knowing if assets are overutilized or underutilized can provide information such as:
- How long people wait to get access to medical equipment
- Whether assets are sitting in a storage area for long periods of time
- How regularly equipment is being serviced
- How much time personnel spend looking for people and equipment