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University Research Team Studies RadarFind RTLS at Southeastern Regional Medical Center
By RadarFind | August 13, 2009
To better understand the effect a fully deployed RTLS has on hospitals, a research team from Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis visited Southeastern Regional Medical Center on July 21 to study a healthcare RTLS in use. The student team, led by Associate Professor Barbara Christe, investigated how RTLS improves hospital efficiency and patient outcomes. A leader in the healthcare RFID field, Christe received national recognition in 2008 for her research into safe uses of RFID in clinical environments.
Barbara Christe and her research team from IUPUI interview an SRMC nurse using RadarFind.
At SRMC, Christe and her team interviewed hospital administrators and staff about the benefits of using the RadarFind RTLS throughout the hospital. They discovered a range of improvements including:
- Improved quality of patient care (dramatically less time searching/more nursing time spent with patients)
- Significantly reduced stress levels and workload on clinical staff and BMETs
- Potential process improvements in multiple departments, including central sterile and infection control
- Preventative maintenance completion rates close to 100% on tagged equipment
- Innovative service contract negotiations, leveraging asset tracking
Central to the results realized at SRMC are RadarFind’s three-position status tags that capture historical data on the entire clinical equipment duty cycle of clean/available, in-use with patient, and dirty/needs cleaning. This data can be used to leverage service contracts, and augment infection control processes to further improve patient safety.
Impressed by what they found, Christe and her team intend to publish their full findings in a peer-reviewed journal in the near future.
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