Healthcare Data Capture—The Ultimate Means to Improve Patient Safety

Today’s staff shortages burden OR teams, nurses, and support personnel. The effect on team morale is palpable as the entire healthcare industry struggles to retain staff. Attempting to get essential tasks completed with less staff and in less time puts patient safety at risk.?

I recognize that you can’t reduce their workload, but you can get more done with less time available. Healthcare data capture technology makes this possible. It’s time for hospitals to invest in automation technologies that make quick work of OR, inventory tracking, and patient safety tasks.?

ID Integration is your problem-solving partner that consults with you to develop the best solution for your workflow for nurses while thinking of patient safety and supporting you through data integration, implementation, and so much more. In a nutshell, we customize data capture solutions to fit your hospital’s needs. Reduce time-wasting tasks and increase the amount of quality time attending to the needs of patients.?

We have an assortment of automated data capture solutions designed just for healthcare environments:

Snap&Go?

The easy-to-use image recognition platform takes a quick “snap” of an item placed on it, then it sends the image through a global database where it is recognized along with its UDI data, serial number, expiration date, and manufacturer SKU number. Info is immediately sent to your hospital ERP system, patient and electronic records, and billing and claims departments. Perfect for the OR, Cath labs, EP labs, and procedure room.

• Reduce staff hours spent on administrative inventory tasks by as much as 48%
• Automate OR charting with 100% data charge captures and 100% reliability of data
• Track recalled items in the OR with automatic safety alerts?
• Eliminate the risk of using expired medical devices, and eliminate the number of expiring items available in stock
• Reduce the incidence of stock-outs of critical supplies by 100%, enabling patients to receive the medical supplies necessary for their care
• Deliver exceptional patient safety without compromise?

Learn more about how Snap&Go? mitigates liability risk on our website.?

Smart Cabinets

The world’s only completely digital inventory control solution that tracks when medical devices, surgical equipment, consignment stock, and even implants are removed, who removed them, and for which procedure. Just tag the item, scan the item into the system, place it inside the Smart Cabinet, and follow, in real-time, when an item is removed or replaced. For accurate restocking, reports are automatically sent to suppliers when inventory drops below a given threshold.?

• Keep your OR functioning on schedule with the automated tracking of implants and tissues
• Experience 100% ROI by optimizing inventory
• Reduce staff hours spent on nonclinical inventory entering and counting tasks
• Send orders wirelessly to supplier when inventory is low to eliminate critical supply stock-outs and use of expired items?
• Reduce high-value medical device inventory by preventing the ordering of duplicate items

Learn more about TotalSense Smart Cabinets.

Care Traffic Control

Workflow efficiency improves exponentially with Bluetooth coupled with your hospital’s Wi-Fi technology to map the whereabouts of equipment, assets, and teams throughout your hospital.

Care Traffic Control consists of:

NavvTrack Hospital Equipment Tracking—Attach low-energy (BLE) Bluetooth-enabled Beacon Tags to essential medical equipment and you have a real-time view of their locations on a digital map of your healthcare facility. Equipment is no longer hiding in plain sight.

• Allow real-time visualization of movements and locations of tracked items, including hospital equipment and mobile devices such as iOS
• Put a stop to wasting time searching for missing medical equipment
• ?Prevent the removal of items from your premises by tracing their movements outside the “geofence”
• Eliminate the hiding and hoarding of necessary equipment?

NavvTrack Teams—The indoor tracking system that pinpoints the locations and movements of hospital personnel in real-time through an app on their iPhones, in the same way that GPS works on your phone outdoors. Stay in touch via text message from a central traffic-control center.

• Experience a bird’s-eye view of staff whereabouts to improve workflow routes for transporters and housekeeping staff efficiency
• Protect staff members with a signal to 911 or to security with the push of a button in case of emergency

I invite you to take a deeper dive into learning about the case studies that prove the efficacy of healthcare data capture technology. Download our free white paper “Using Automated Data Capture to Improve Hospital Supply Chain Management & Patient Care.”

I’m looking forward to discovering how your medical facility could simplify processes that improve staff satisfaction and efficiency, supporting better patient care, outcomes, and team morale using these innovative technologies.