Awarepoint: ZigBee RTLS Solutions for Hospitals

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ZigBee Success in Healthcare Applications

Matt Perkins, Chief Technology OfficerAwarepoint

mperkins@awarepoint.comTrack us down at www.awarepoint.com

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Patient Safety– Improving Quality and Reducing Risk

Asset Management– Reducing Rental Costs– Improving Asset Utilization– Reducing Lost/Misplaced/Stolen Items– Environmental Sensing (Temp, Humidity)

Workflow Optimization– Cost Control – Revenue Generation– Health Care Value Equation

Healthcare Pain Points

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Quality of Care * (Revenue/Cost) - Risk

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Map LocationMonitor StatusMeasure UtilizationImprove Processes

Real-time Awareness Solution (RTAS)

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• 4.2 million square feet• 121 floors • 27 buildings• 16,000 assets

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1.What is Adequate Coverage?2.What Level of Accuracy Do We Really Need?3.What is Practical Deployment and Maintenance?4.What Does Interoperability Really Mean?5.What is Considered Low Risk?

Common Customer Questions?

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5 Critical Success Factors

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Awarepoint RTLS Architecture using Zigbee Network

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Awarepoint’s Zigbee RTLS Hospital Deployment

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FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT MULTIPOINT CALCULATION

CONTINUOUS CALIBRATION / RE-ROUTING

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CAN and DOES provide in-room accurate resolution utilized to Drive WorkflowCreates a more “intelligent” network to support  accurate workflow/interactionsProvides persistent enterprise accuracy in all areas, without walls, without curtains, in wide-open space - not just those areas that are “spatially confined”

Advances in Awarepoint ZigBee RF Technology

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Allows ZigBee mesh networking to be used for applications requiring higher level of resolution for workflow triggers, without additional technologies

S2C Sensor

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Enterprise Wide– Infrastructure Agnostic– 802.15.4 ZigBee Wireless Sensor Network

Minimally Invasive & Low Maintenance– Plug-In Sensors– Long Life Battery Powered Tags– Fully Managed Service

Accurate– In-Room Accurate Location Algorithms

Interoperable– Infrastructure and Vendor Agnostic– Use Case Driven Applications– Standards and Browser Based Architecture

Hospital Proven with Low Risk Business Model

Awarepoint Zigbee-Based RTAS

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Phased Approach

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Value

TIME

Business Intelligence

Revenue Cycle MgmtClinical Workflow

Beyond the Care Facility

Enterprise Workflow Patient FlowThroughput

Staff Efficiency

Departmental FunctionalityBiomed / Clinical Engineering

OR / EDCentral Services / MM

Security

Asset ManagementShrinkage

RentalUtilization

PHASE TWO

PHASE THREE

PHASE FOUR

PHASE ONE

Validate Accept Adopt Institute Integrate Optimize

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Questions, Comments, Additional Information

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