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Tracer™ Staff
and Equipment Locating
Tracer is
a simple system of sensors and infrared transmitters
(Tracer tags). Staff and equipment you want to
locate have the Tracer tags and the sensors are
flush mounted in ceiling tiles or flush mounted in a
wall in coverage areas. One sensor is placed in
every room of the coverage area and approximately
every twenty feet in hallways.
Staff Locating
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Equipment Locating -
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Staff
Locating:
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The
staff locating feature allows staff members to
easily find one another. It also allows instant
communication from the console at the nurses'
station the staff member in the patient room.
This reduces the need for loud overhead pages
and walking room-to-room to locate personnel.
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Tracer system also adds the "automatic call
canceling" feature. When a staff member enters a
room, there is no need to cancel the call by
reaching over the patient to press cancel at the
headwall - the call is automatically canceled
when the staff member walks into the room.
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If
Management Software reporting is integrated with
the Responder IV system, then staff specific
statistics can be generated. For example,
average response times for technicians, average
response times for a particular person, which
staff member helped the patient in the room,
etc. This is usually used in order to combat
patient complaints and increase the quality of
care provided to patients.
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Equipment
Locating:
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The
equipment tracking allows staff members to find
a particular piece of equipment from a touch of
a button on the nurse-call console - real time.
Which means if you are looking for a wheelchair,
and it's in use you can see exactly where it is
and where it's going. This eliminates the need
for additional rental equipment, because now
your staff will be able to find the equipment
you already have!
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Equipment tracking also can prevent theft of
equipment. If there are certain exits or areas
that equipment should not be near, then an alarm
can be initiated if a piece of equipment is
taken into an area it doesn't belong or near an
exit it shouldn't be. Doors can be locked,
camera call-up can be initiated, and personnel
called/paged.
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Asset
Tracking software can be added to allow
biomedical personnel to schedule periodic
maintenance in he software. Then everyday they
can pull a list of all equipment needing
periodic maintenance and the EXACT real-time
location of every piece. This eliminates the
need to spend time searching for equipment
needing periodic maintenance.
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Asset
Tracking software also allows you to run reports
to find out what equipment was in a patient's
room, and for how long, for billing purposes.
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Custom reports can be generated using MS Access®
or Crystal Reports®, from the database stored
within the Tracer System.
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