How to Deploy a Health-Care Real-Time Location System
Strategic advice from four hospitals that are tagging and tracking assets—and achieving a return on their investment—can help you plan a successful solution.
By John Edwards
Sept. 27, 2010—Real-time location system (RTLS) technologies employ radio signals to locate and continuously track tagged assets, both indoors and outdoors. Although RTLS applications span multiple industries, health-care organizations are among the most enthusiastic adopters, using the technology to monitor and manage a wide range of expensive and easily lost or damaged assets, including medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.
While such systems typically generate a rapid return on investment for health-care organizations, several issues can lengthen deployment times and drive up costs. Critical challenges include integrating the technology into expansive and RF-sensitive environments, understanding the benefits and drawbacks of various RTLS approaches, securing the buy-in of management and staff members, and training employees.
A carefully planned RTLS strategy has a better chance of success than an initiative that has not been fully thought out. To help you avoid the pitfalls that could derail your RFID project,RFID Journal spoke with four executives from health-care organizations that have successfully deployed real-time locating systems:
Sept. 27, 2010—Real-time location system (RTLS) technologies employ radio signals to locate and continuously track tagged assets, both indoors and outdoors. Although RTLS applications span multiple industries, health-care organizations are among the most enthusiastic adopters, using the technology to monitor and manage a wide range of expensive and easily lost or damaged assets, including medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.
While such systems typically generate a rapid return on investment for health-care organizations, several issues can lengthen deployment times and drive up costs. Critical challenges include integrating the technology into expansive and RF-sensitive environments, understanding the benefits and drawbacks of various RTLS approaches, securing the buy-in of management and staff members, and training employees.
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A carefully planned RTLS strategy has a better chance of success than an initiative that has not been fully thought out. To help you avoid the pitfalls that could derail your RFID project,
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