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SwipeSense Drastically Reduces Cost of Hospital Real-Time Location Systems with Launch of Asset Tracking ApplicationCHICAGO, Aug. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SwipeSense, a Chicago-based healthcare technology company, announces the launch of Asset Tracking on the SwipeSense Platform. In line with the company mission to enable hospitals to deliver the most efficient and safest care possible, Asset Tracking allows staff to instantly locate and track equipment they need. An average US hospital loses up to $4,000 worth of equipment per staffed patient bed every year. Not only does that have a fiscal impact, but this equipment is often critical to patient outcomes. To address this challenge, hospital Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) have been available for over 15 years from legacy providers. Due to the cost, complexity and poor accuracy of these systems, fewer than 1/5th of US hospitals leverage RTLS for tracking their medical assets, despite the overwhelming clinical, financial and operational benefits. “SwipeSense identified the challenges associated with existing technologies and set out to create a fully-managed Asset Tracking system, with room-level accuracy for a fraction of the cost of current offerings,” states Yuri Malina, vice president of product at SwipeSense. “With the launch of ths new product, RTLS is no longer reserved for facilities with the latest IT infrastructure or massive capital budgets.” With SwipeSense Asset Tracking, hospitals can:
Asset Tracking joins SwipeSense’s industry leading Hand Hygiene application on the SwipeSense Platform. Both applications leverage a shared hardware infrastructure allowing facilities to add new applications on top of an existing implementation without having to replace existing devices. “The work on hand hygiene with SwipeSense over the preceding two years gave us great confidence that they could extend the technology successfully to Asset Tracking,” stated Mark Zielazinski, Chief Information & Technology Integration Officer at Marin General Hospital. For more information about Asset Tracking visit: www.swipesense.com/asset-tracking About SwipeSense Media Contact [email protected] |