Reliability, Cost Effectiveness Make RadarFind the Tracking System
Choice for Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center
CAMDEN, N.J. & RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Business Wire EON) November 27, 2007 --
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Southern New Jersey’s
premier regional tertiary care teaching medical center, recently chose
the RadarFind Real Time Location System (RTLS) to boost its efforts to
enhance patient care, reign in costs and improve infection control
throughout the hospital. Our Lady of Lourdes is part of Catholic Health
East, one of the nation’s largest not for
profit health systems.
The simplicity of RadarFind’s installation,
its ease of use and its ability to provide real-time status information
about medical equipment throughout an entire hospital made this asset
and patient tracking solution stand out from competitors, hospital
officials said.
“This system will enable us to manage our
equipment and monitor patient throughput more effectively and
efficiently, benefiting patient care and hospital operations,”
said Alexander Hatala, president and CEO of Lourdes Health System. “It
became quickly evident that the design of RadarFind’s
solution was guided by doctors and former hospital administrators who
clearly understand the dynamics of hospital operations.”
RadarFind also is more affordable to install than other systems,
allowing hospitals to see a rapid return on investment. For example,
less than a year after installing the RadarFind system, Wayne Memorial
Hospital, a 316-bed facility in Goldsboro, N.C. was able to reduce
equipment purchases by more than $300,000.
The Simplest Solution is the Best Solution
“RadarFind did their homework by spending
considerable time actually listening to potential hospital customers and
performing test trials encompassing entire hospitals—not
just clinical zones,” said Louis Bianchin,
senior analyst from Venture Development Corporation. “Rather
than using technology intended for wireless data transmission to capture
location information, RadarFind elected to develop their RTLS platform
with more cost-effective hardware and better accuracy. Sophisticated
antenna-based technology and system components that plug into almost any
AC outlet result in a simple solution that most hospitals can afford.”
RadarFind’s unique platform technology
overcomes the limitations associated with typical RFID and WiFi
solutions. Designed to seamlessly integrate with existing hospital
infrastructure and operations, RadarFind requires no new wiring or
ceiling and wall penetration. And unlike many other systems, RadarFind
operates independently of a hospital’s
critical IT network.
The RadarFind system can provide room-level accuracy with no need for
ongoing calibration. Readers that plug into existing electrical outlets
avoid interfering with hospital operations and staff processes since
there is no need to close off patient rooms during installation.
Moreover, the intuitive software is simple to use and easily
accommodates hospital staff skill levels.
Actionable Intelligence: The RadarFind Edge
Where many other systems provide information only about a device’s
location, RadarFind’s intrinsically safe,
programmable asset tag goes a step further by alerting staff to the
device’s status: available, in-use or needs
cleaning/sterilization.
“Recent studies demonstrate that
environmental surfaces, including mobile medical devices and computers,
are a route for transmitting infectious diseases,”
comments Vincent Carrasco, M.D., chief medical officer for RadarFind. “By
using RadarFind asset tags to track and identify mobile medical devices
in order to document effective cleaning, hospitals can better address
and control infection rates.”
“The RadarFind system was designed
specifically for the hospital environment and can scale to accurately
track thousands of assets and patient encounters in the largest hospital
system,” said RadarFind’s
CEO Terry Kane, M.D. “Working in concert with
our hospital customers, our ongoing technology development generates
inherent flexibility to economically meet the unique demands of even the
most complex hospital facility.”
About RadarFind Corporation
RadarFind Corporation, a healthcare technology company, offers a unique,
patent-pending Real Time Location System that uses a platform technology
for tracking medical equipment and patients. Specifically designed for
hospitals, the RadarFind RTLS system seamlessly integrates with existing
hospital infrastructure and operations, while functioning independently
of a hospital’s critical WiFi system.
RadarFind is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. For more information
please call 1-877-RADARFIND (723-2734) or visit www.radarfind.com.
About Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center is a regional referral center, known
for providing the most sophisticated levels of care. For more than five
decades, the medical center has been committed to enhancing the health
and well-being of southern New Jersey's residents, particularly those
most in need.
The 410-bed teaching hospital offers many specialty services, including: The
New Jersey Heart Institute at Lourdes, one of the largest providers
of cardiac services in the Delaware Valley; the Regional
Perinatal Center for high-risk mothers and infants; the Lourdes
Regional Rehabilitation Center; the Southern
New Jersey Regional Dialysis Center; and the Center
for Organ Transplantation. Lourdes is the only hospital in New
Jersey approved to perform kidney, pancreas and liver transplants. Our
Lady of Lourdes also is recognized by the American Hospital Association
as a national leader in the provision of community outreach services.
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center is part of Catholic Health East, one
of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health
systems which includes 34 acute care hospitals and other affiliated
healthcare facilities, and is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of
Allegany, N.Y. For more information, please visit www.lourdesnet.org.
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