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HCS 533 Week 6 Assignment Nurse Tracking Scenario
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NURSE TRACKING WITH REAL TIME LOCATING SYSTEM
Consider the following scenario: Progress Healthcare, a local hospital
in South Carolina, recently installed a nurse tracking system. This
Real Time Locating System (RTLS) from Stanley Healthcare is an
expansion of the commonly known Aeroscout, which is used for asset
tracking. The goal is to understand workflow streams and utilize the
data to streamline the workflows through a LEAN event. Data is
captured from the employee badges and sent wirelessly to a local
server and then sent to an online database for business intelligence
analysis and reporting. Progress Healthcare also sends patient
monitoring information to the floor monitoring server and then to the
electronic medical record (EMR). The monitoring data is also stripped
of personal health information (PHI) and sent to the same Internet
server to correlate tracking information with each room.
Understanding staff movement is seen by leadership and management
as efficient. It is also a way to justify chargers and to validate the level
of care a patient receives. Many of the staff nurses and assistants see it
as a distraction and as another time consuming measure that
diminishes patient care.