Real-Time Location System Overview
Keep a pulse on your most important assets by empowering your care team to precisely locate people and equipment to improve efficiency, satisfaction, and safety in more ways than one.
Real-Time Locating Systems have proven results
60% increase in average time spent at the bedside1
250+ bed facility with Voalte Nurse Call and RTLS Staff Locating
80% decrease in response times2
300+ bed facility with Voalte Nurse Call and RTLS Staff Locating
49% decrease in average call volume2
300+ bed facility with Voalte Nurse Call and RTLS Staff Locating
Hillrom Precision Locating (HPL) is a real-time locating system (RTLS) providing staff and asset tracking in the healthcare space. HPL delivers advanced accuracy in an elegantly simple infrastructure that is easy to maintain with lower long-term costs.
HPL helps boost caregiver efficiency and safety and improve the patient experience by simplifying workflows and getting your care team back to the bedside.
What Can a Real-Time Location System Do for You?
Improve Workflows and Caregiver Satisfaction
- Locate fellow team members and critical equipment at-a-glance
- Caregivers simply walking in the room can:
- Cancel Patient calls
- Suppress bed exit alerts
- Reset rounding reminders, and more
Improve Caregiver Safety
- Alert the right response teams of an unsafe scenario at the push of a button on the Hillrom Precision Locating staff badge
Improve the Patient Experience
- Locate the equipment patients need faster to speed response and recovery times
- Robust reporting around compliance, time in room, response times, and more to inform decision that help optimize your care environment.
The Power of Precision with RTLS
Hillrom Precision Locating with RTLS provides multiple views of your staff and equipment to give you crucial location data quickly and easily—with accuracy within a meter.
HPL Locating Map
- See staff and equipment move across your floors in near real-time.
- See the list of currently located staff and equipment and filter to narrow the map view further.
HPL Grid View
- See at glance in a full list view who and what is where.
- Sort and filter by location, tag type, battery status, etc..
Integration with Voalte Nurse Call
- See staff location data displayed on Voalte Nurse Call staff and patient room consoles and on status board
An Intuitively Simple Real-Time Location System
The accuracy and speed are impressive and unlike any other locating system we've used. The map feature is particularly useful in helping our caregivers know where other team members and equipment are on the floor.
Competitive Comparison
DIFFERENTIATING HILLROM PRECISION LOCATING
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LOWER LONG-TERM COSTS
- Savings in the long run through longer tag battery life and wired room infrastructure
- Calculations based on the needs of a 100-bed facility over a 10+ year period.
HILLROM PRECISION LOCATING
| Item | Replacement Cycles Over 10+ Years |
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| 300 STAFF TAGS | 1 replacement Rechargeable staff tags last a total of ~7 years before replacement |
| 300 ASSET TAGS | 1 replacement Asset tags do not require recharging. Battery life is ~7 years before replacement |
Expected 42% Total Replacement Cost Savings Over 10+ Years
Education & Documentation
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Product Documentation
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Brochure
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Evidence & Outcomes
Real-time Locating Systems have proven results.
60% increase in average time spent at the bedside1
250+ bed facility with Voalte Nurse Call and Staff Locating
80% decrease in response times2
300+ bed facility with Voalte Nurse Call and Staff Locating
49% decrease in average call volume2
300+ bed facility with Voalte Nurse Call and Staff Locating
The accuracy and speed are impressive and unlike any other locating system we've used. The map feature is particularly useful in helping our caregivers know where other team members and equipment are on the floor.
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