Hospital Patient Tracking Systems

Hospital patient tracking software can significantly improve the quality of service processes and staff efficiency.

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Patient tracking systems in hospitals have emerged as one of the most significant technologies in contemporary hospitals as they change how care and logistics for patients are handled. These systems utilize various technologies like real-time location systems (RTLS) and indoor positioning which let the staff monitor patients’ movements and conditions continuously within a hospital setting. This capability increases the safety of patients significantly by eliminating the chance of losing a patient or having them misplaced and increases the operational efficiency of the hospital.

That is why using the specific indoor positioning technologies, the Navigine platform allows monitoring of patients’ position and their status in real-time, which contributes to hospitals’ effective functioning. This is a revolutionary method that enhances patient safety and minimizes wait time.

Enhanced Patient Safety

A patient tracking system increases the safety experience of the hospital to greater heights as all the patients within the hospital are tracked online about their current state and location. This direct access to patient data minimizes the chances of patients ‘escaping’ or drifting into dangerous zones such as the three patients with either basal, moderate, or advanced degrees of dementia.

Improved Operational Efficiency

Patient tracking systems enhance the management of operations in a hospital through the effective use of patient flow and resources. Tracking results in efficient identification and location of patients meaning that the health facility’s staff can spend more time on individual patients. Moreover, they assist in the improvement in the speed and efficiency of the organizing of treatments and particular actions and reduction of time consumption in coordinating them.

Data-Driven Decision Making

Patient tracking systems produce vast volumes of information that can be of immense value when used to analyze the performance of different hospitals and terminals. In essence, through this data analysis work, the hospital administrators are able to see trends, gain insights into patient traffic, and form conclusions on how to distribute resources and optimize the hospital’s processes.

Enhanced Patient Experience

There has always been a concern about the time the patients are made to spend when waiting for their turn to be attended to, this has always been solved by the tracking systems because the patients are put where they are required. Modern Map works in real-time and if it is used to navigate the layout of the entire hospital, then the general experience is not so straining for the families of patients and the patients themselves.

Patient Tracking Solutions We Offer

Hospital patient tracking in real-time
Ensuring patient and visitor safety
Assessment of forecasted hospitalizations
Issues of patient confidentiality

Hospital patient tracking in real-time

One of the important functions of the hospital patient tracking systems is defining a patient's location in real-time. After coming to a hospital, the patient is provided with a bracelet with a tag that contains detailed information about him – name, identifier, current state, results of medical tests, and others. While moving around the hospital, the readers, located on the territory, detect the signals from the tags and send them to the cloud. Later, the information gets into the computer or the mobile application on the doctor’s smartphone, providing real-time updates on patient locations.

Features:
step-by-step navigation in real-time for patients and visitors;
hospital patient tracking systems;
getting analytical reports on the occupancy of hospital wards.

Expected benefits:

increasing the performance efficiency of the medical staff;

reduction of waiting time;

increasing patient satisfaction and overall patient experience.

Ensuring patient and visitor safety

Thanks to indoor positioning systems, it is possible to react quickly to incidents. If, while going downstairs, a patient suddenly falls, the platform will analyze his movements and send the corresponding notification to the nurse. Another scenario is fire. In this case, the hospital staff can timely locate the hot spot and ensure that all the visitors have promptly left the building. The analysis of emergencies and patient tracking lets the hospital management define potentially dangerous places and prevent incidents in the future.

Features:
getting notifications in case of emergency;
remote call of a nurse or a doctor.

Expected benefits:

increasing patient safety and care;

preventing possible emergencies in the buildings.

Assessment of forecasted hospitalizations

During operations, the patient tracking system provides detailed analytics about the hospital’s performance. The obtained information can be used both currently and in the longer term. Using analytical data, the hospital management can easily define the necessary volume of drug and equipment purchases, control the distribution of drugs, and level up the downtime of medical equipment.

Features:
making analytical reports on occupancy and hospital attendance.

Expected benefits:

room optimization based on patient flow;

effective distribution of the company budget for purchasing the necessary equipment and drugs.

Issues of patient confidentiality

Safety in data gathering and storing

The implementation of emergency patient tracking systems always means using confidential data concerning diagnoses, medical prescriptions, etc. Even if a medical institution uses secure hospital patient tracking software, there is always a possibility of an intentional or accidental leak of information about patients. For that reason, during the installation of the hospital patient tracking system, it is essential to pay much attention to training the staff on the safe use of the platform.

Ethical issue in tracking patients

Some people suppose that tracking patients can touch confidentiality issues. It is so since the safekeeping of information can theoretically decrease. To solve this problem, the patient location tracker has to be installed only with the consent of a person. If patients are elderly or people with mental illnesses, it should be discussed with relatives or guardians.

Features:
medical patient tracking while maintaining data confidentiality.

Expected benefits:

more patients agree to monitoring for safety.

F.A.Q

It uses RTLS technology with wearable devices that communicate with sensors to track patient locations in real-time.

It improves workflow, reduces wait times, optimizes resources, and enhances communication and emergency response. Real-time tracking allows hospital staff to monitor patient location, which can help prevent patients from wandering, especially those with dementia or other cognitive impairments.

It monitors patient movements, prevents wandering, and ensures quick assistance during emergencies. Alerts can be set for restricted areas, ensuring immediate response if patients enter unauthorized zones.

It generates reports on wait times, patient counts, peak times, and activity durations to analyze patient flow.

Yes, it integrates seamlessly with minimal disruption to existing infrastructure.

Example of Implementation

Case brief: hospital patient location tracking system to improve service processes and improve hospital safety.

Area of coverage: 5,000 s.m.

Functionality: tracking patients on the interactive map, displaying emergency cases for quick response, the ability to call a doctor to the patient room.

Number of tracked objects: 200

Results: increasing patient satisfaction, increasing the efficiency of the clinic staff.

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