Real Time Locating Systems
Special Care Systems is an authorized distributor of the Critical Alert CommonPath Nurse Call System. This system seamlessly integrates with industry-leading real time locating system (RTLS) manufacturers such as Sonitor®, CenTrak® as well as Critical Alert’s own native RTLS platform. This provides a fully-integrated ecosystem with the CommonPath nurse call system to create substantial gains in workflow efficiency, bed-level presence awareness, and reporting.
Our real time locating systems are the most advanced asset tracking and management solutions for healthcare facilities. They include a variety of purpose-built asset tags, easy-to-use software tools for comprehensive map and list views, robust reporting, and immediate alert notifications.
Real-time location systems make nurse calls better. Integration of RTLS technology into the CommonPath Nurse Call System creates substantial gains in workflow efficiency, bed-level presence awareness, hygiene compliance tracking, and reporting.
Why choose Critical Alert Real Time Staff/Asset Locating System?
Smart Receivers
Receivers track the RTLS badges as they enter patient rooms. These receivers will track who the caregiver was, their role, how long it took to arrive, and how long they stayed.
Advanced Reporting
CommonPath reporting can be viewed by floor, unit, request type, or staff member allowing hospitals to generate actionable data in key areas that are essential to patient safety and satisfaction.
Hands Free Devices
By tracking through a badge, caregivers can automatically close nurse call related workflow events by being in the room. They are now able to immediately interact with patients without hitting a button.
✓ PASSIVE WORKFLOW
Critical Alert has pioneered the use of real time locating systems to passively close workflow events, eliminating the need for caregivers to manually press buttons on staff stations. Because CommonPath can monitor the credentials of the staff member assigned to a particular badge, it can automatically determine whether or not that staff member’s presence should end the workflow (e.g. only an RN can fulfill a pain med request).
✓ ENHANCED REPORTING
Integrating our real time location system with Critical Alert Nurse Call helps nursing administration gain deeper insights into the workflows and staffing levels by the floor or unit. This bed-level awareness detail allows nurse administration to generate relevant actionable intelligence on the operational efficiencies within their departments.
✓ SUBSTANTIVE ROUNDING COMPLIANCE
Effective rounding should lower the amount of requests coming into the nurse call system. However, without data to demonstrate this dynamic, nurse leadership is challenged to establish whether or not their rounding practices are truly addressing patient needs.
✓ BED LEVEL PRESENCE & STAFF LOCATION
Integrating RTLS with Critical Alert Nurse Call helps nursing administration can gain deeper insights into the workflows and staffing levels by the floor or unit. This bed-level awareness detail allows nurse administration to generate relevant actionable intelligence on the operational efficiencies within their departments.
✓ RTLS ASSET TRACKING
One-third of nurses report spending at least 1 hour during an average shift hunting for equipment. This can often lead to asset hoarding, which results in over-procurement and increased expenditures. Real time locating system asset tracking can help identify and track the location of medical devices and equipment (ex: le/pumps/wheelchairs/etc.) throughout a client facility. Lightweight. small form-factor IR or ultrasound badges transmit the location of equipment to receivers in rooms and corridors located throughout the hospital.
Our Critical Alert Nurse Call offers native integrations with industry leading manufacturers.
