Celebration Health, a Florida Hospital facility, is employing a real-time location system (RTLS) to measure the operational efficiency of its new patient tower, which opened in mid-August 2011. At the tower, nurses wear RTLS badges enabling the hospital to gather and analyze data regarding staff members’ movements, in order to ascertain how the unit could be more efficient. The system utilizes the facility’s existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, with tags that transmit data to the Wi-Fi nodes, and software that manages the information related to RTLS reads. The firm is using its own business-management software, including Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, to evaluate the data and determine what it means for staff efficiency, and how it could be improved. Learn how the solution allows management to view, for example, when employees take extra steps, enabling the hospital to improve procedures based on those findings.
Speakers:
Todd Frantz, Associate Chief Technology Officer, Florida Hospital;
Ashley Simmons, Operations Performance Improvement Consultant, Florida Hospital