Knowing the location history of your hospital’s assets allows you to analyse your entire workflow. With our solution, you’ll have a clear picture of that workflow and be able to see precisely where equipment is at any given moment, and how long it’s been there for. Once you can map and measure all that time, you can identify problematic areas you can tweak and make improvements to increase your utilization rate.
Using the infusion pump as an example one more time: say you learn that pumps typically sit idle for an extended period in a soiled equipment closet before being collected for cleaning. If you make a change to that cycle so the infusion pumps are collected and cleaned daily, they’ll go back into service faster, increasing their utilization rate, and likely reducing the number of requests for more infusion pumps to be purchased.
Without understanding your utilization rate, you’re flying blind when trying to assess how large your facility should be.
If your hospital has no idea how your equipment is being used, you’re likely relying on anecdotal feedback to assess your purchasing decisions. When your staff have trouble locating clean, ready-to-use equipment, their default response is to ask you for more equipment. That decision-making process isn’t even an art, it’s just a guess – and hospital equipment is bought like that all the time, to the tune of millions of dollars in wasted spending. Our solution helps you understand the usage
