SmartHealthcare™
Most consumers prefer to choose providers that give them the best quality of care with the shortest wait times and the most responsive staff. Lygase strives to be the leading provider of healthcare solutions that facilitate enterprise-wide visibility and management of crucial resources through real-time location through our web enabled business intelligence solutions.
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Our goal is to provide hospital leaders with exceptional business intelligence to improve the quality of care, patient safety, clinical and financial outcomes by delivering enterprise-wide visibility and management with an easy to use, real-time data solution. We promote strong collaboration in an effort to produce superior outcomes and endeavor to bring considerable value to each of our clients.
Breaking down technology barriers between hospital and outpatient care provider systems significantly improves efficiency, lowers cost and broadens delivery of care. Lygase RFID solution provides a real-time view of assets as they move around a healthcare facility. The solution leverages passive EPC Gen 2 RFID tags that identify assets such as the various medical devices and equipment used throughout the facility.
When nurses want to know the real-time location of patient or staff, they no longer need to spend valuable time locating a resource. They can simply look at a large flat-panel screen in the nurse's station, where an icon indicates the person location.
Benefits
- Cost Effective
- Easy to Use
- Increase Staff Efficiency
- Increase Patient Satisfaction
- Customizable and Scalable
RFID is not just for tracking of equipment. These benefits can be seen across a wide array of implementation channels. The more functions you implement, the more return on your investment you will see! Some of these functions include:
Patient Monitoring
If a patient is allowed (or not allowed) to wander freely, you would be aware of their precise location in real-time. In the event that the patient needs immediate care, a doctor or nurse will know exactly where to find him/her. As you read further, you will learn about other applications that can be used in conjunction with this solution.
Equipment Tracking
Never search for an infusion pump, wheelchair or charts again! Know where every piece of equipment is located in real-time, whether it’s being used or not, and who it’s being used for/by. Now your nurses can spend more time doing what they are meant to do … take care of the patients.
Room Vacancy Management
Some hospitals can take as much as 6 hours, from the time a patient leaves to the time the room’s availability is updated in the system. This slow process can greatly reduce the number of patients a hospital can take in, ultimately hindering your revenue. With the right RTLS system in place, the staff will know immediately when a patient is released so they can clean and prepare the room for the next patient. The processing time is reduced to a fraction of what it used to be and your efficiency rate is increased exponentially.
Doctor & Nurse Assistance
Now your doctors and nurses can be equipped with a small, non-invasive device that allows them to call for assistance when and where they need it with only a push of a button. There’s no longer a need for public loudspeaker announcements when doctor or nurse assistance is requested. For example, when the button is pushed, a text message can be sent to the doctor or nurse mobile device with the location of where they are needed and who requested them.
Admissions & Discharges
The need for an efficient admission and discharge system is very important, especially in extremely high-volume hospitals. This benefit works together with the room vacancy management solution to notify hospital staff the minute a client is discharged and a bed is available. Think of how many more patients you can admit per day … per month … per year!
Organic Tissue, Specimen and Blood Inventory Management
Hospitals must always know where blood, tissue and diagnostic specimens are located and under what conditions they are being stored. Fitted with the proper passive or active tags, this can be accomplished with a real-time view of the entire hospital. You can be notified when a specimen is near expiration, or know precisely how much blood you are currently storing by blood type. There are, to say the least, endless applications for inventory management using RTLS technology.