The AeroScout RTLS (Real-Time Location System) Platform is an asset management, temperature & environmental monitoring, infant protection, patient and staff workflow, and staff protection solution. At its foundation, it provides visibility on the location and status of assets and people. In addition to tracking and visibility in real-time, AeroScout is designed to provide high-level overviews and detailed information for actionable insights that can be used to:

• Create safer care environments
• Elevate patient care
• Deliver better outcomes
• Improve efficiency
• And more

Staff Protection

As a staff protection system, AeroScout provides healthcare workers with a portable and discreet means to call for help for themselves, colleagues, or patients from anywhere in the hospital. Each staff member carries a Wi-Fi tag, typically worn attached to their hospital ID badge to keep it always within reach.

AeroScout uses Wi-Fi-based wireless technology to protect staff members in high-risk areas such as the ED, with the ability to locate staff anywhere in the hospital. The Securitas MobileView software driving the system also allows security and staff to monitor and track incidents in real-time while providing accurate, up-to-date information in real-time and on-demand. This also provides robust incident reporting to record crucial information should an incident occur.

This is a key system that can help facilitate effective and rapid response to staff duress calls and help prevent workplace violence in healthcare. Designed as a mission-critical enterprise system, the AeroScout solution helps create an atmosphere of safety for workers while enabling hospitals to reduce risk and financial exposure associated with workplace violence.

Benefits of AeroScout for Staff Protection:

Some benefits of having the AeroScout system in your facility’s tech and security stack include:

• 24/7 protection for staff hospital-wide using existing infrastructure
• Reduced exposure to adverse events and better staff relations
• Peace of mind and increased job satisfaction for staff

Patient Flow & Staff Workflow

In addition to safety and security, the capabilities, visibility, and insights AeroScout provides improve patient and care team communications, patient flow, and staff and caregiver workflows. Real-time patient tracking improves flow and communication across clinics as well as in the OR and ED. Real-time locating for staff and caregivers allows healthcare facilities to optimize workflows, better automate nurse call functionality, and maximize reimbursement.

Benefits of AeroScout For Patient Flow & Staff Workflow:

Some benefits that AeroScout can provide related to patient flow and staff workflow include:

• Reduced wait times for patients
• Faster room turnaround times
• Increased room utilization
• Improved care team communications
• Higher family and patient satisfaction
• Comprehensive reporting for continued insights and ongoing improvements

Infant Protection

The AeroScout RTLS comprehensive solution is built to include Hugs infant protection for hospital-wide visibility for newborns and all ages of pediatric patients, including NICU babies who have reached the open-crib stage. If your hospital has a maternity ward, Hugs is the community standard and #1 infant security solution.

Streamlined workflows, built-in tools, and real-time locating and alerts ensure your youngest patients and their mothers are safe and protected, while giving your staff the resources they need to improve efficiency and provide optimal care across the board.

Benefits of AeroScout & Hugs for Infant Protection:

Some benefits of having Hugs included in the AeroScout platform include:

• Seamless integration with workflows
• Peace of mind for families and caregivers
• Multiple layers of protection
• Easily scalable to suit facilities of all sizes
• Easy-to-use system from the tag application through discharge
• Convenient, easy point of care access
• Real-time alerts and notifications at your fingertips

Asset Management

Effectively managing healthcare assets is a challenge, and any missteps can result in lost time, money, and efficiency in healthcare facilities. Overstocking supplies can result in increased costs and wasted money, while understocking supplies can result in critical shortages. Shrinkage or theft is also a concern, and poor asset and inventory management leaves it uncontrolled. Missing or misplaced equipment can result in slow responses to recalls or delays in patient care. If equipment is rented and is difficult to track or is misplaced, it can result in high rental costs for a facility.

Healthcare facilities can overcome these challenges with robust asset management. AeroScout RTLS is designed to include enterprise asset tracking and management. With advanced locating, tracking, and monitoring of equipment, healthcare facilities can make inventory management more effective, track and manage preventive maintenance on essential equipment, better control shrinkage, improve recall management, and more. Not only does this help improve the overall management of mobile medical equipment, but it can also help healthcare facilities reduce costs, improve efficiency, and provide better care. These are all ways to use RTLS to improve healthcare asset management.

Simply tag mobile equipment with Wi-Fi or BLE tags and then monitor and manage equipment with real-time asset location. Asset location and status are automatically logged, monitored, and available in the platform. Administrative interfaces for management allow for assets to be easily located when needed and also allow for the configuration of real-time alerts sent via PCs and mobile devices. The AeroScout RTLS platform also provides robust reporting capabilities to allow for analysis of operational and historical data. This allows facility managers to better understand inventory levels over time, PAR levels, asset utilization, and more. Reporting and analysis also allow managers to gain valuable insights for improving facility management across the board and delivering cost savings, improved efficiencies, and better patient care.

Benefits of AeroScout RTLS For Asset Management:

Using AeroScout RTLS for asset management allows you to:

• Reliably locate equipment in real-time
• Configure real-time alerts delivered via PCs and mobile devices
• Automate manual processes for inventory management
• Prevent over- or understocking supplies with PAR level management
• Efficiently locate equipment affected by a recall
• Effectively track rental equipment to minimize unnecessary rentals and avoid late return fees
• Control for shrinkage by preventing lost or misplaced equipment
• Better understand usage rates and status for mobile equipment
• Track and improve preventive maintenance schedules
• Reduce manual rounding for equipment
• Robust reporting and analysis of operational and historical data

Temperature & Environmental Monitoring

In addition to patient care, healthcare facilities also need to provide safe storage for sensitive supplies and materials. Pharmaceuticals, vaccines, tissue samples, blood products, organ products, and more all need to be safely stored in a monitored and maintained environment. Additionally, temperature and humidity need to be monitored in clinical areas to support patient safety and maintain compliance. These are essential applications of environmental monitoring in healthcare. Wireless monitoring ensures safe storage environments for these essential supplies and safe, compliant environments across all areas, including:

• Pharmacies
• Laboratories
• Blood banks
• Clinical areas
• Non-clinical areas

Using AeroScout RTLS for temperature and environmental monitoring helps improve staff efficiency, facilitate better patient care, and increase patient satisfaction. Sensor tags are placed in areas to be monitored, whether that’s freezers, refrigerators, specific units, patient rooms, etc. Sensors and detectors can be used to monitor temperature, VFC, voltage, humidity, contact closure, and more. 24/7 wireless monitoring of temperature and humidity conditions is automatic.

It also leverages your Wi-Fi network, which allows you to easily scale and cover every part of your healthcare facility, including off-campus sites. Alerts are configurable and are sent in real-time when condition levels deviate from where they should be. This facilitates rapid response and correction to reduce loss, improve safety, and save money. Responders can easily log corrective actions to process alerts and update historical information about the equipment and incident. Historical data is maintained in the system for regulatory compliance as well as informational reporting. Reporting and analytics also include operational data.

Benefits of AeroScout RTLS For Temperature & Environmental Monitoring:

Environmental monitoring provides several benefits. Some benefits of using AeroScout RTLS for temperature and environmental monitoring include being able to:

• Easily deploy and scale
• Conduct 24/7 monitoring
• Track multiple conditions
• Automatically store and date-stamp all device readings
• Effectively track facility-wide, including off-campus sites
• Maintain product and supply viability and prevent spoilage
• Improve patient safety and comfort
• Configure and customize real-time alerts
• Facilitate rapid response and correction logs
• Fast and accurate reporting and analytics, including logged corrective actions
• Automate reporting and analysis with ready-made reports
• Create customized reports
• Reduce manual tasks for staff
• Simplify, maintain, and prove compliance
• ISO 17025 Accredited Environmental Monitoring Tag Calibration Program via Securitas Healthcare
• Provide cost-savings

Resources

• T23-BLE-Staff-Protection-Badge-Data-Sheet.pdf
• Securitas-HUGS-Infant-Protection-Solution-Overview.pdf
• Securitas-AeroScout-Asset-Management-Solution-Overview.pdf
• T12sb-Asset-and-Patient-Tag-Data-Sheet.pdf
• Securitas-Healthcare-RTLS-Tags-and-Chargers-Approved-Cleaning-Guide.pdf
• Environmental_Monitoring_Solution_Overview.pdf
• T15h-Temperature-Humidity-Tag-Data-Sheet.pdf
• T15ms-Tag-Data-Sheet.pdf
• Securitas-Healthcare-Environmental-Monitoring-Tag-Calibration-Program.pdf