Source - Ewa Geruzel
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, hospitals and clinics face an influxe of patients seeking urgent help and care, so it’s essential for health institutions to be ready. Hospital wayfinding solutions from Navigine based on indoor navigation technologies and the special IoT equipment from the hardware partner Minew are ready to help. By combining our solutions, we have developed a system dedicated to boosting hospital performance. The system is already live in a number of the US institutions.
About the Company
- Company: NDA
- Region: USA
- Industry: Healthcare
- Implemented solutions: Indoor asset tracking, indoor navigation
The Problem
Today, patients face difficulties searching procedure units and hospital rooms due to the complex topology. A great number of buildings, halls, and passages complicate navigation. The staff can get into a similar situation when they don't have enough time to track patients properly and arrive in rooms on time to render urgent assistance.
Overcrowded waiting rooms in hospitals and polyclinics are another major concern. These places do not always can fit all the visitors; moreover, they do not allow for keeping social distancing to prevent the infection of Covid-19, which causes much stress for patients.
One more problem is connected with great medical institutions' high costs for searching for the wanted equipment. Stolen or lost assets complicate medical staff working processes.
The Goals of the Solution
The primary objective of the solution is to address the growing challenges faced by hospitals and clinics. Key goals include:
- Improving Navigation and Accessibility: Simplify wayfinding for patients and staff in complex hospital layouts to reduce stress and save time.
- Enhancing Operational Efficiency: Minimize time spent searching for critical assets and medical equipment, ensuring better utilization of resources.
- Optimizing Patient Care: Enable healthcare providers to focus on patients by streamlining operational workflows and reducing non-clinical burdens.
- Ensuring Safety and Compliance: Reduce overcrowding in waiting areas and help maintain social distancing to minimize infection risks.
- Cost Reduction: Mitigate losses due to misplaced or stolen assets by implementing robust asset-tracking solutions.
The Solution Offered
The cooperation between Navigine and Minew (a supplier of beacons and wearable equipment) allows the realization of effective ‘smart hospital’ solutions that can be used in the following directions:
- Navigation inside hospitals for doctors and visitors. The hospital wayfinding solution works with Navigine SDK, which is easily implemented into the existing mobile applications. It’s just enough to use the mobile app on the smartphone to build the route to the necessary room and get to the place as quickly as possible. Moreover, doctors and visitors can utilize Minew E5 Location Beacon for easy and quick hospital wayfinding; with the configured parameters via BeaconSET+ APP, users vastly benefit from route navigation.
- Patient/asset/equipment tracking. The solution ensures the constant monitoring of assets, visitors, and employees. The platform and location beacons, such as the Minew E8 assets tracking beacon, let the staff get anytime access to all the assets, improving the use of medical equipment. To take better care of patients, Minew B10 Panic Button can greatly avoid potential risks in an emergency, and C10 Card Beacon can help with personnel management. Thanks to these monitoring systems in a hospital, the medical workers are always well-informed about the location of equipment, wheelchairs, and other objects. It reduces the time spent searching for equipment and allows for paying more attention to patients.
Results
The system implementation makes it possible to increase hospital efficiency by 10%. The most significant results of using the Navigine platform in partnership with Minew will be the following:
- Possibility to build convenient and short routes to rooms.
- Total control over equipment and other assets inside hospitals, which reduces the time for their searching by 20%.
- Patient and staff safety can be improved by reducing the occupancy rate of waiting rooms.
The location-based platform lets hospitals improve the quality of customer service and increase client loyalty to some specific medical institutions.
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