Austco’s 4th generation Tacera hardware, when deployed throughout a building, creates a network of sensors. Staff, and residents or patients carry a small, battery-powered badge that automatically interacts with these sensors to report their location. These badges are rechargeable. With each interaction of badge and sensor, data is sent to the RTLS server, and Tacera records the badge location and time. Having RTLS built-in to Tacera avoids the cost of additional 3rd party hardware. This gives several other advantages too:
Mobile Duress
Ideal for staff safety in Emergency Departments and throughout hospital wards. The badges have programmable buttons, and users can use them to call for help, wherever they are within the facility. When pressed, the location displayed in the nurse call system will be that badge’s current location and the type of alarm programmed for that button. With the two-button badge, the second button can either be programmed to cancel the alarm raised by the first button, or to raise a different type of alarm.
Reporting
All location and button press data is stored for reporting, including who the badge was assigned to, room visits, response times, and time spent in rooms. With this information, healthcare organisations can access complete audit reports, better monitor how care is delivered, and identify opportunities to improve.
Automatic Staff Presence
With dual-technology RTLS, the badges and call points interact wirelessly to record a presence event in a location. Staff no longer need to press a physical presence button and staff presence is displayed on workstations, mobile devices, and other interfaces within the system. The presence events can optionally initiate other processes, and all events are logged for reporting.
Automated Workflow
Many processes can be initiated with auto-presence and below is a small selection of examples:
- Send messages
- Place audio calls
- Automatically log completed rounds
- Move a bed workflow from current stage to the next and send a message to the staff responsible for the next stage
- Mute the sounders
- Display role-specific content on in-room screens and / or mobile devices
The product is constantly being developed to add to these features wherever we can provide additional benefit to our customers.
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