The Cisco Location-Aware Healthcare Solution
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Solution Overview The Cisco Location-Aware Healthcare Solution Intelligence about the location of mobile resources streamlines business and clinical processes and frees staff to deliver high-quality care. Nursing staff and caregivers work in high-stress, high-risk, data-intensive environments that are often dominated by paper-based processes and inefficient workflows. Given the extreme time pressures these professionals experience, it’s a constant challenge to increase the time they have available to spend with patients while reducing lower-value tasks that can affect their overall efficiency and effectiveness. Now leading healthcare organizations are adopting location solutions to improve their awareness of critical resources, including equipment and people. In the RFID in Healthcare Survey from BearingPoint and the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT), respondents indicated that they believe spending on RFID will dramatically increase beginning in 2007. Nearly 74 percent of respondents said they anticipate their companies will invest in RFID by that year, with nearly 39 percent expecting their firms to spend US$250,000 or more on the technology in 2007 and 2008. Large organizations plan to spend considerably more, $1 million to $5 million, during that same two-year period. Driving that spending will be a shift from pilot RFID projects to production systems, expanded ® live RFID deployments. As part of the Cisco Medical-Grade Network, the Cisco Location-Aware Healthcare solution can help healthcare organizations monitor and optimize workflows and increase responsiveness as well as productivity and efficiency. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.

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Solution Overview As pilot projects move to production, location-aware health services have converged on three main solution areas: asset management, workflow optimization, and patient tracking. This solution overview will explain the challenges and benefits of each of these services. Challenges Mobility of people and assets is a requirement for delivery of high-quality patient care. However, tracking mobile assets, mobile patients and improving the process of providing care with mobile resources poses challenges for healthcare organizations. Mobile Assets Clinical staff spend significant...

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Solution Overview Mobile Workflow Optimizing resources for improved workflow is a continuous challenge because providing healthcare to patients is an extremely dynamic and mobile process. In addition, healthcare organizations are faced with staffing and capacity limitations that aggravate workflow bottlenecks. Business process applications, such as bed management and Emergency Department systems, have emerged to address workflow problems in clinical processes. However, fast, accurate status information to feed into these workflow applications is not always available and reliable. Without an...

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Solution Overview Other applications that need to meet specific tracking requirements can benefit from adding chokepoint technology such as in the following scenarios: ● If you need to determine the precise location of an asset in less than a 10 meter radius, for instance within a specific storage room If you need to know the location of an asset from a predefined set of places such as in specific departments or buildings of a healthcare facility. If you only need to be alerted to the location of an asset during certain events for example when an asset enters or leaves a building....

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Solution Overview Improved patient safety is not the only benefit of this application. When coupled with clinical applications, tracking the location of the patient can also improve workflow. To enable high quality care, patients, procedures, equipment and staff must be synchronized. With the patient tracking solution, clinical staff can use a PC in any location in the hospital to instantly access the location of the patient. You no longer need to call to locate patients or to page and wait for an answer. The Cisco solution can make patient location information available to clinical or...

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Solution Overview The Cisco Location-Aware Healthcare solution simultaneously supports both real-time tracking of assets like wheelchairs and chokepoint notification alerts which are enabled when an asset with an active RFID tag enters or exits a chokepoint area. Both tracking methods use the same wireless infrastructure and the same set of tags, but chokepoint technology requires additional (non Wi-Fi) readers positioned at the entry and exit points. For summary information about chokepoint system, see the Cisco WCS Location Notifications Summary. Optimize Workflow and Staff Management The...

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Solution Overview be exported to clinical applications and utilized to optimize processes such as asset management, patient tracking, and procedure scheduling. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network and the Cisco Location Solution are the primary components of the Location-Aware Healthcare solution. The Location-Aware Healthcare solution is uniquely designed for providers to enhance real-time awareness and insight to their operations. It provides mobility, security, and instant access to data applications that can help healthcare organizations accelerate responsiveness, increase productivity,...

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Solution Overview Qualitatively the benefits associated with location solutions included improved IT productivity through location-based trend analysis and improved customer satisfaction through reduction in wait time for services. Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan, provides another example of how location tracking can lower costs and improve the delivery of services. For years, Bronson lost time, productivity, and money whenever employees from any department had to leave their normal duties to hunt for wheelchairs. Bronson’s IT networking department, the applications group,...

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Solution Overview Americas Headquarters 170 West Tasman Drive Asia Pacific Headquarters Europe Headquarters Cisco Systems International BV Cisco has more than 200 offices worldwide. Addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers are listed on the Cisco Website at www.cisco.com/go/offices. ©2007 Cisco Systems Inc All rights reserved CCVP the Cisco logo, and the Cisco Square Bridge logo are trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc; Changing the Way We Work. Live, Play and Learn is a service mark of Cisco Systems. Inc. and Access Registrar, Aironet, BPX, Catalyst. CCDA, CCDP CCIE CCIP CCNA, CCNP CCSP...

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