[November 21, 2009] St. Trudo House Uses AeroScout Healthcare Visibility Solution to Track Locations of Patients Tweet Nov 20, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- AeroScout, a provider of Unified Asset Visibility for the healthcare industry, working with Drager, announced that St. Trudo Hospital in Belgium is extending the use of its AeroScout Healthcare Visibility solution to include tracking the location of patients and Wi-Fi devices. Central among the tracked Wi-Fi units are Drager's Infinity M300 patient-worn vital signs monitors. According to St. Trudo, the hospital leveraged its existing AeroScout Healthcare Visibility solution and its Cisco Unified Wireless Network to add the ability to immediately locate ambulatory patients and Wi-Fi devices. Patients are tracked either by having AeroScout Tags or by wearing Drager Wi-Fi Telemetry Monitors. Since AeroScout solutions track Wi-Fi devices without needing tags or additional software of any kind, all patients wearing Drager's monitors can be located. This allows patients to walk around the hospital while still being monitored and tracked. Since Wi-Fi is prevalent in the hospital, patients are able to leave their unit and even their floor while still being visible to nurses and staff. This not only increases patient safety, but also patient and nurse satisfaction. "Every project we execute and every technology we implement is done with the goal of improving patient care and operational efficiency," said Daniel Loos, Manager, Information Technology, at Regional Hospital St. Trudo. "We're now leveraging the investments in our AeroScout solution, Drager patient monitors and Wi-Fi network to further enhance patient safety and comfort." Regional Hospital St. Trudo serves the Limburg and Vlaams-Brabant regions of Belgium. The hospital originally installed AeroScout's Healthcare Visibility solution, including Wi-Fi Tags and MobileView software, in 2008 to track and manage expensive specialty mattresses, IV pumps, supply carts and wheelchairs that are required throughout the facility, as well as to accurately monitor the temperature inside the hospital's data center. A key feature of AeroScout's MobileView software is its ability to provide real-time location information for any Wi-Fi device connected to the network, such as computers-on-wheels or Drager Infinity M300 patient-worn monitors, without the need for additional tags or software installations. The Drager Infinity M300 is a compact, wearable, wireless patient monitor that uses the Wi-Fi network to transmit patients' vital signs telemetry to computers at nurse stations in the ICU and Cardiology ward of St. Trudo Hospital. Working with Drager and AeroScout, St. Trudo is able to use its existing AeroScout solution to track the location of patients wearing an Infinity M300. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]