Using RTLS to Improve Patient Safety and Overcome Budget Pressures at Hospitals Outlined During 'RFID in Health Care'

WHO:

Awarepoint and Skytron RTLS customers: Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center; University of California San Diego Medical Center; and San Joaquin Community Hospital will present in a case study format their experience and lessons learned with enterprise-wide real-time location systems (RTLS) during 'RFID in Health Care' being held January 28, 2010  in Dallas, Texas. 'RFID in Health Care' is produced by RFID Journal and is co-located with the Leadership Summit on Healthcare Supply Chain Management.  

WHEN:

RFID in Healthcare

Thursday, January 28, 2010: 8:30 AM -  5:20 PM CST

WHERE:

The Fairmont Dallas

1717 N. Akard Street

Dallas, TX 75201

TOPIC:

Thursday, January 28, 2010: 9:30 AM

Successful Deployment of RTLS in Health Care

San Joaquin Community Hospital, part of the Adventist Health System, recently deployed an enterprise-wide real-time location system (RTLS) covering 350,000 square feet and involving more than 1,300 assets. The system included equipment asset tags and temperature-monitoring tags. In this session, learn how the hospital ROI value drivers, installation success criteria and key lessons learned in employing RTLS as a solution to budget pressures and quality of care  

Speaker:

Sam Itani, Vice President, San Joaquin Community Hospital

Thursday, January 28, 2010: 10:45 AM CST

Using RTLS to Overcome Business-Management Challenges in Today's Operating Room

Properly managing perioperative services from both a patient-flow and budget perspective affects a hospital's entire organization. Operating room flow drives the vast majority of a medical facility's in-patients, and ORs are the major revenue and cost centers of most hospitals. Ultimately, improving perioperative services improves a medical center's overall flow and bottom line. Today's OR management team must oversee multi-million-dollar budgets, meet aggressive quality and safety targets, recruit and retain employees, and drive surgeon satisfaction. In this presentation, learn how RTLS technology impacts the UCSD Medical Center's process-improvement goals to maximize operational efficiency, as well as minimize required resources and related costs.

Speaker:

Scott Sullivan, Business Manager, University of California, San Diego Medical Center

Thursday, January 28, 2010: 2:30 PM CST

Building a Business Case for RFID: From the Basement to the C-Suite

Equipment and supplies that are not readily available when required for patient care can compromise safety and impact staff productivity. By appropriately tracking the location, availability and usage of equipment or high-cost, low-turnover supplies, an investment in RFID has the potential to save money, minimize waste and improve employee efficiency. This presentation will discuss one hospital's experience in developing a business case with a positive ROI to fund and implement RFID at a 248-bed, acute-care hospital, ambulatory surgical unit and nine medical office buildings.

Speaker

Terri Simpson-Tucker, RN, MSN, Assistant Administrator of Support Services , Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center

During the conference, Awarepoint will be exhibiting its real-time location solutions (RTLS) that add location awareness to a variety of healthcare applications for operational efficiency, patient flow and patient safety.  Demonstrations at the booth will showcase the Skytron Asset Manager, powered by Awarepoint, and discuss how location awareness can impact financial and clinical outcomes with a high and quick return on investment (ROI).

CONTACT:  

Jules Marciniak, 619-884-9983 [email protected]