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Awarepoint
We are a private San Diego company that is the leader in enterprise awareness and Real-time Location System (RTLS) solutions for healthcare. We actively track, monitor and optimize the utilization and workflow of equipment and people in hospitals. Our solutions enable our clients to achieve outcome improvements in the areas of efficiency, safety and compliance. Analogous to indoor GPS, RTLS provides hospital asset tracking, patient tracking and staff tracking needed to:
- optimize efficient, cost effective use of medical equipment assets
- reduce unnecessary equipment rentals and lessen lost, stolen and misplaced equipment
- improve hospital staff productivity
- enhance hospital operational efficiency measures
- support patient safety initiatives including infection control in hospitals
- enhance bed throughput and hospital capacity management
- supply valuable location, status and movement data to clinicians and healthcare executives to enable patient flow initiatives, workflow automation and process improvement
Awarepoint provides ZigBee-based wireless mesh network technology for active RFID asset tracking, associated RTLS software applications and healthcare consulting services. Our Enterprise Awareness solutions improve hospital business processes, enable workflow automation, support hospital efficiency measures, improve patient safety and infection control initiatives and facilitate continuous process improvement in hospitals.
Today, Awarepoint represents the largest enterprise-wide hospital RTLS client base in the industry. Awarepoint is providing its RTLS to hospital clients which include prestigious university hospital teaching institutions, premiere independent hospitals, military medical centers and members of major hospital integrated delivery networks.
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Awarepoint, Real-time Location System, hospital and healthcare and asset and patient and staff tracking, ZigBee-based wireless mesh network technology, active RFID asset tracking, workflow automation, www.awarepoint.com, RTLS. Cost reduction, equipment workflows and staff productivity
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Intelligent InSites, Inc.
Measurable and Meaningful Intelligence That Will Change How You Run Your Hospital.
Intelligent InSites is transforming the healthcare industry by driving significant, measurable, and sustainable financial and quality-of-care improvements by delivering on the vision of the Real-Time Enterprise.
InSites Enterprise Visibility Platform™ was developed for hospitals to provide an easy way to collect data and by delivering a convenient way to make the information easy to use, healthcare organizations can improve how they operate and consequently deliver a better level of care to their patients. As every hospital has different areas of need, and different systems and processes in place, the InSites solution is able to address a wide spectrum of healthcare needs. So rather than using separate applications to solve niche needs, you can choose a software platform that would be able to address needs in the order you want and provide you flexibility over time to continue solving more and more issues.
Through the InSites “Essential” applications, hospitals are able to more effectively manage their processes such as asset management or temperature monitoring, but just as importantly, clients are able to incorporate the data from the InSites Platform into their existing solutions to make them even better. Imagine an ED Work Flow application that could tell you what rooms are available and the status of your patients – without someone having to manually enter that data, or that your existing asset management application displayed the exact location of every piece of equipment and how much time it had been in use. Pretty cool!
The specific uses and applications vary by client, but the common deliverable is that InSites’ clients have visibility into every corner of their organization and are able to optimize their operations in a way they were unable to do before. The results are pretty impressive…
Increased Throughput
Reduced Costs
Streamlined Processes
Reduced Liability Exposure
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Intelligent Insites, www.intelligentinsites.com, healthcare, hospital and RTLS Solutions, real and time and location and systems, asset management, temperature monitoring, bed management, inventory management and positive patient identification and patient flow.
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RLS / Asset Management / Real-Time Locating Systems (from Wikipedia 2011)
Real-time locating systems (RTLS) are used to track and identify the location of objects in real time. Using simple, inexpensive badges or tags attached to the objects, readers receive wireless signals from these tags to determine their locations. RTLS typically refers to systems that provide passive or active (automatic) collection of location information.
Location information usually does not include speed, direction, or spatial orientation. These additional measurements would be part of a navigation, maneuvering or positioning system.
Origin
The term RTLS was created (circa 1998) to describe an emerging technology that not only provided the Automatic Identification capabilities of active RFID tags, but added the ability to see the physical location of the tagged asset on a computer screen. Although this capability had been utilized previously by military and government agencies, the technology had been too expensive for commercial purposes.
By the early 1990's, commercialization began at two healthcare facilities in the United States (Foote Hospital in Jackson, MI and Broward Children's Hospital in Pompano Beach, FL). These early adoptors are atrributed to real-time locating industry innovator Precision Tracking (Versus Technology, Inc.) and were based on the transmission and decoding of infrared light signals from actively transmitting tags.
Systems Designs
RTLS excludes passive RFID indexing (radio frequency transponder indexers) and Cellnet base station segment locators (location-based services) from the scope of the ISO/IEC approach to RTLS standardization as well as all beacon systems, that ping without request. RTLS systems apply typically in confined areas, where the required reference points would be equipped with wireless anchor nodes.
Ranging
Ranging, as a special term for measuring distance, is the prerequisite for locating. Measuring a bearing angle, i.e. angulating is the other alternative.
Determining the distance may be either a non cooperative scanning process, as with RADAR or LIDAR, or a cooperative direct distance measuring process, as with RTLS. A scanned beam may form an overall image as a model of the whole scene. In all other cases the image of the scene is rather selective.
The following step is extracting the distance information from the scanned image. Direct distance measurement with a single beam targets only the object to be measured, for example, with a laser. This method requires additional information about the direction of the beam. The remaining method is omni-directional transmission with a signal containing an address code. Only the addressed object responds to the request. The time required for the signal to reach the object can be used to calculate the distance. After completing the distance measurement, the location may be computed.
There are two different principles when measuring travel time of radio waves:
- Trilateration derives the travel time of a radio signal from a metering unit, and measures and computes the distance with the relation of light speed in vacuum, the (Time of arrival concept).
- Triangulation derives the travel time of a pair of synchronous radio signals from a metering unit with two transmitters, and measures and computes the difference of distance with the relation of light speed in vacuum as an angle versus the baseline of the two transmitters (TDOA time difference of arrival concept).
All the terms named here just apply to measurement concepts. All information about location is for services applied to mobile or portable or otherwise transportable objects. Location information may be relevant for managing interaction of persons with services as well.
-- Angle of arrival (AoA)
-- Line-of-sight (LoS)
-- Time of arrival (ToA)
-- Multilateration (Time difference of arrival) (TDoA)
-- Time-of-flight (ToF)
-- Two-way ranging (TWR) according to Nanotron’s patents
-- Symmetrical Double Sided – Two Way Ranging (SDS-TWR)
-- Near-field electromagnetic ranging (NFER)
Types of technologies used
There is a wide variety of systems concepts and designs to provide real-time locating. A good choice is listed in RTLS for Dummies by Ajay Malik (Wiley 2009). Methods include:
-- Active radio frequency identification (Active RFID)
-- Active radio frequency identification - infrared hybrid (Active RFID-IR)
-- Infrared (IR)
-- Optical locating
-- Low-frequency signpost identification
-- Semi-active radio frequency identification (semi-active RFID)
-- Radio beacon
-- Ultrasound Identification (US-ID)
-- Ultrasonic ranging (US-RTLS)
-- Ultra-wideband (UWB)
-- Wide-over-narrow band
-- Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN, Wi-Fi)
-- Bluetooth
-- Clustering in noisy ambience
-- Bivalent systems
A general model for selection of the best solution for a locating problem has been constructed at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. Many of these references do not comply with the definitions given in international standardization with ISO/IEC 19762-5 and ISO/IEC 24730-1. However, some aspects of real-time performance are served and aspects of locating are addressed in context of absolute coordinates.
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Is your business ready for an RTLS? This friendly, hands-on guide shows you how to understand and implement this cutting-edge technology, explaining RTLS methodologies in plain English. From the initial deployment to monitoring to determining Return on Investment, you'll see how to successfully meet your needs, ensure data accuracy, and sustain your system. |
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Target Audience
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of primary care physicians responsible for routine care and follow up of celiac patients.
Statement of Need/Program Overview
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Acknowledgement: This course is co-sponsored by the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine.
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Provided by: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
After completing this CME module, participants will be able to
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Target Audience
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Upon completion of this activity, participants
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Provided by: American Academy of Pediatrics
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Provided by: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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After participating in this activity, the participant will demonstrate the ability to: Explain the role of newer agents in the treatment of patients with lymphoid leukemia
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Provided by: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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Provided by: American Academy of CME & ACTHIV
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At the conclusion of the activity, learners should be better able to:
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Provided by: American Academy of Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation
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