Real-Time Location System Overview
Keep a pulse on your most important assets by empowering your care team to precisely locate people and equipment.
Precision Locating (PL) is a real-time locating system (RTLS) that provides staff and asset visualization in the healthcare space. Its rechargeable batteries, with a lifespan of up to 7 years, minimize the need for frequent replacements.
With Precision Locating's Ultra-Wideband technology, you can locate care team members across your unit and track essential equipment like computers on wheels (COWs), beds, IV pumps, medication barcode scanners, and more, all with sub-meter level accuracy.
When integrated with Voalte Nurse Call and Baxter Smart Beds, the system helps support safety and workflow efficiency initiatives. Caregivers’ locations can be viewed via Nurse Call, pinpointing the origin of the alert. Additionally, when integrated with Voalte Patient Safety, bed exit alarms can be automatically silenced when a caregiver enters the room.
Precision Locating provides the ability to locate multidisciplinary staff, providers, and clinicians, and it integrates seamlessly with Voalte Nurse Call to display staff locations on status boards and staff consoles.
What Can a Real-Time Location System Do for You?
Automate Care Team Workflows
- Locate fellow team members and critical equipment on status board and staff console with integration with Voalte Nurse Call.
- Cancel patient calls
- Suppress bed exit alerts
- Reset rounding reminders
Reinforce Safety Efforts
- Alert the right response team to an unsafe scenario at the push of a button with integration with your Voalte Nurse Call.
Putting Patients First
- Locate equipment needed for patient care.
- Robust integration with ERM+ reporting capabilities offers data visualization around critical metrics, including response times, caregiver time spent in rooms, and rounding times.
The Power of Precision with RTLS
Precision Locating with RTLS provides multiple views of your staff and equipment —with accuracy within a meter.
An Intuitively Simple Real-Time Location System
Competitive Comparison
DIFFERENTIATING HILLROM PRECISION LOCATING
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LOWER LONG-TERM MAINTENANCE NEED
- The replacement cycle comparison below is based on a typical 10+year useful life of an RTLS system
- Calculations based on the needs of a 100-bed facility over a 10+ year period.
PRECISION LOCATING
| Precision Locating | Other RTLS Systems | |
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| Tags | Replacement Cycles Over 10+ Years | |
| STAFF TAGS | 1 replacement Rechargeable staff tags last a total of ~7 years before replacement |
2 replacements Staff tags last a total of ~5 years |
| ASSET TAGS | 1 replacement Asset tags do not require recharging. Battery life is ~7 years before replacement |
2 replacements Asset tags often last ~5 years |
| STAFF TAGS BATTERIES | 10 replacements Typical staff tag battery life is ~1 year |
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| ASSET TAG BATTERIES | 5 replacements Typical asset tag battery life is ~2 years |
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| ROOM INFRASTRUCTURE BATTERIES | No batteries Precision Locating’s ceiling anchors are wired via POE |
2 replacements Many RTLS systems use batteries to power-in-room infrastructure, which often only last ~5 years. Depending on the system and level accuracy needed, there could be several types of devices and batteries needed. |
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