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Care Communications
Introducing a new class
of fire detection
Real Time Location Systems
Improving Patient Flow, Safety and Efficiency
Features at a Glance
How Does it Work?
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Badges and asset tags with unique
ID’s constantly report back their
location to ceiling mounted infra-red /
radio frequency receivers.
Staff & patient location
Patient flow
Hand hygiene monitoring
Nurse call automation
Bed management
Integrated staff attack
Asset management
Extensive analysis tools
Systems integration
Worry free prompts
Exposure control
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our Organisations
Concerns and Objectives
To begin with, we listen to your
organisation’s concerns and targets.
Typical issues include the need to
locate staff and equipment, improve
response times, drive operational
efficiency and patient/staff safety.
We establish a clinical-grade standard
by combining safe, invisible infrared
(IR) light and the communication
capabilities of Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID). This provides
the most precise locating technology
available to healthcare.
Staff, patients, visitors and assets can
all then be located and tracked in real
time to deliver workflow operational
efficiencies.
Return on Investment
The key to getting any capital
investment approved is so often Return
On Investment (ROI). We’ll help justify
these goals with our technology.
Integrated with ZETTLER
Nurse Call Platform
The system sits on our established
Zetsafe Safety & Efficiency platform.
This enables you to easily add nurse
call and staff attack components
whilst keeping cost and disruption to a
minimum.
Applications
- General Hospitals
- Private Hospitals
- Walk in Clinics
-Surgeries
- Long-Term Care Facilities
Key
Advantages:
Fast Return on Investment
Drives & Enhances Efficiency
Reveals Process Bottlenecks
Improves Patient Outcomes
Safer. Smarter. Tyco. ™
Introduction to Software & Hardware
Feature Focus – Software
Locate equipment, patients,
residents and staff to save time
- Reduce time spent searching
- Improve asset utilisation
- Quickly find life-critical or recalled
equipment
Patient Flow
Patient Flow is one of most powerful
packages and with good reason.
You’ll know at a glance, where
patients are and how long they‘ve
been waiting, patient status (ready to
be seen, with doctor, in X-ray, etc.),
room status (available, assigned, in
need of cleaning), where patients and
caregivers should go next and where
bottlenecks are causing delays.
Automate your operations to
optimise time
- Automatically communicate patient
status and next steps
- Cue caregivers when patients are
ready to be seen
- Automatically alert when rooms/beds
are ready for turnover
Integrate with other systems to
lessen time-consuming tasks
- Automate bed assignments and
more in your emergency room
- Display emergency room, lab and
other data on one electronic white
board
Analyse passively collected,
objective data to improve processes
- Reduce rental & capital costs
- Enhance hand hygiene participation
- Reveal bottlenecks
Different Views to Suit Needs
Enterprise View™ provides floorplans
and List Views™ to provide situational
awareness. Our Analytics package
allows unprecedented historical
insight into operations for process
improvement.
Exposure Control – Managing a Virus
Outbreak
In the event of an outbreak from a
deadly virus such as MERS, by using
our powerful Exposure analytics
software, your facility will immediately
know who had come into contact with
the contagious patient.
Feature Focus – Hardware
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IR/RFID Badges – Safe
and Reliable
Ceiling Mounted IR/RF Receivers –
Discreet and Effective
These lightweight portable units
transmit their location in real time to
the ceiling receivers. The wearer’s
ID can be affixed. An integral staff
attack button is also included.
The infra-red receivers are available
in two types – a short range unit
for accurate positioning and a
longer range unit for a more
general response.
Asset Location – Managing
Material Resources
Care Communications
Server
By utilising small, lightweight tags
affixed to assets, the vital location
of equipment is constantly updated
in real time. This information can be
displayed on a PC with our software.
Purpose designed to operate in
environments where robustness
and continuity of operation is vital,
our care communication server
offers a wide range of interfaces for
the integration of various areas.
The Nurse Call Advantage
Advantages of RTLS & Nurse Call on One Network
Integral Nurse Call Automation
A common request is Nurse Call
Automation. As nurses enter the
room, their 'presence' is automatically
registered and time stamped. The active
'presence' condition will automatically
reset as they leave the room. This also
captures nurse rounding data.
Zetsafe Safety & Efficiency Platform
– For Peace of Mind
Since our system is based on circuits
that are divided into independent
segments, any rule exceptions to
normal operation will be immediately
detected and will only affect the
system locally.
Planning Nurse Call Upgrades?
Don’t worry, they can be easily and
painlessly added at a later date in a
straight forward and affordable way.
Zetsafe Network Switch – For Added
System & Fault Resilience
With the many advantages that IP
systems offer, it‘s critical that switching
devices (through which room IP
devices are connected) are safely
designed. In the event of a network
switch fault, our unique Zetsafe
emergency call technology would
One Network – Less Cost &
Disruption
By combining systems, there‘s less
wiring and disruption.
provide a secondary communications
path to maintain maximum possible
system functionality.
ZETTLER Nurse Call – A Truly Global
Presence
With over 12,500 healthcare ZETTLER
Nurse Call installations, ZETTLER is
established in 35 countries and over
600,000 bedrooms.
What ZETTLER Features Do our
Clients Appreciate?
- An Impressive Suite of Unit Choices
- Superior Anti-Microbial Protection
- Standard or Speech Options
- Zetsafe Safety Network
- Choice of LON/LAN Configurations
- Backwards Compatibility
- Wide Array of Integration Options
- Staff Attack Options
Feature Focus – Optional Nurse Call Upgrade Path
Displays – A Wealth of Clear
Information and Easy to Use
Patient‘s Handsets – Designed for the
Modern Healthcare Environment
Our units typically display precise
call types and calling locations
according to preset priorities.
Standard & speech type operations
are available.
To assist in the battle against
Hospital Associated Infections,
our new range of handset plastics,
cords and plugs are anti-microbially
treated for even greater protection.
Room Units – Carefully Designed
for the Healthcare Environment
Staff Attack Options – Taking Care
of your Staff, Patients and Visitors
Designing aesthetically pleasing call
units is vital, but so too is the need
to make them reliable and easy to
use. The modular design allows parts
to be changed without needing to
replace the whole unit.
In difficult working situations, the
reassurance that our well designed
staff attack system can offer is
invaluable. For staff on the move,
alarms can be raised via portable
transmitter units.
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Most Deployed RTLS Technology in Healthcare
Patient Flow
More than just location –
workflow automation for clinics,
operating rooms & A&E
Hand Hygiene
Automated monitoring for
hand hygiene compliance
Nurse Call Automation
Real-time staff location and
call cancellation enables nurse
rounding analysis
Bed Management
Real-time, automated bed
census for improved patient
flow hospital-wide
Staff Attack
Portable, location-aware
alert integrated button for
enhanced safety
Asset Management
Accurate tracking and equipment
management for optimal utilisation
and lowering costs
Analytics
Ready-to-run reports for
turning location data into
business intelligence
Systems Integration
Bi-directional data sharing:
electronic medical records, temp
monitoring, scheduling & more
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Accurate Locating
Technology
Unlike other RTLS technologies,
infrared (IR) and radio frequency (RFID)
technology allows for very precise
locating. Since IR signals cannot
penetrate walls, we can easily achieve
room-level locating. By focusing IR
sensors, we can define smaller, subroom areas to distinguish two or more
locations for bed- or chair-level locating.
V-Direct
Wired™
- 11th generation infrastructure
- Install once, minimal maintenance
- Easily achieves bed- and chair-level
accuracy
From Entry-Level
Locating to Advanced
Applications
Integrated to RTLS Visibility™
software to provide entry-level locating,
while our RTLS Advantages™
suites deliver sophisticated workflow
solutions.
Powerful Systems
Integration Capabilities
Scheduling Systems, Asset
Management Software, Laboratory
Platforms and more can be automated
and integrated with our RTLS solution.
Want to show data from your existing
systems on our Enterprise Views? We
can bring together previously disparate
data including:
- Patient name and appointment time
from scheduling
- Patient acuity from Electronic Health
Records
- Labs ordered/completed from lab
system
'Glance & Go' Screens – For your next Move
Communicate
Patient Status & Next Steps
Once we’ve automated your operations to optimise time,
wherever your 'Glance & Go' Screens are located, you’ll
easily be able to automatically communicate patient status
and next steps to your staff, saving valuable time and
enhancing safety along the way.
There will be no need to use old fashioned manual
whiteboards anymore – staff will be free to be carers again.
Here are just three examples of our easy to understand,
intuitive screens:
List View:
This automatically updated electronic whiteboard, requires
no manual data entry. Know at a glance not only patient
location, but also progression through their visit.
Our displays and automatically updates patient locations
and room assignments, acuity levels, and lab and x-ray
orders. It also allows caregivers to automatically 'claim'
patients, helping caregivers to easily identify the responsible
caregiver.
Optional wait time alerts (with timers based on acuity level)
help ensure timely visits and patient satisfaction.
Floor Plan View:
If your preference is for a more graphic style of display, then
maybe you’ll prefer our Enterprise View™ Floorplan.
A quick glance at the screen allows staff to assess current
room status and operation conditions.
With respect to the room/bed status, you quickly know
whether it’s available, assigned or in need of cleaning – to
improve patient rooming and room turnover times.
Reports Plus™ Analytics:
Beautifully simple to understand graphical displays such this
help staff quickly grasp the status of the metrics that they
are trying to measure and the goals that they are trying to
attain.
They help users better understand resource utilisation,
workloads and staffing needs. You’ll easily be able to
benchmark your A&E Dept’s wait times, room turnover
rates, lengths of stay and more against your own goals.
We’ll help you monitor workflow and automatically cue
caregivers to take next steps.
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Care Communications
Typical Integrated System
PSU c/w
Battery Backup
Ethernet Cable
(CAT 5/6)
Reports Plus™
Software for
Historical Analysis
LON Bus Cable
Bay 1
Bay 2
Bay 3
IP Gateway
Ancillary
Cable
Nurse Call
with
Automated
Staff
Location &
Call Reset
Call Unit
Patient’s
Handset
RF Ceiling
Receiver
Three
Bay Ward
Speech Workstation
& Tracking Controller
IR Ceiling Receivers
Staff Base Console
LON Bus Cable
Active IR/RF
Staff / Patient Badges
& Asset Tags
Ceiling
Receivers
&
Active IR/
RF Badges &
Asset Tags
Outpatients /
A & E Dept
RF Ceiling
Receiver
IR Ceiling Receivers
Ancillary
Cable
Maintenance
Rooms
RF Ceiling
Receiver
IR Ceiling Receivers
Tracking Controllers
Infection Control
Locations
Hand Hygiene
Participation
Soap Dispenser Unit Receivers
Ethernet Cable
(CAT 5/6)
'Glance & Go'
Staff Screens
Nurse Bases
CareComms Server
Floorplan View
List View
Integration to 3rd Party IT Systems
Protocols: HL7 , XML and
Web Services, SQL, TCP/IP Socket
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Contact us for further information:
RTLS Communications Ltd.
71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ
Tel.: 0800 9788 395, E-mail: info@rtls.uk.com, Internet: www.rtls.uk.com
950.0015E-UK_RTLS | V3.0.1 | 6. Mrz 2015