The AwarepointBlog

Awarepoint, Lehigh Valley Health Network, and American College of Clinical Engineering at HIMSS12 Annual Conference

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:46:28 PST

The executives will discuss RTLS’ role in a connected healthcare IT ecosystem. Read more in our press release. SAN DIEGO, California – February 17, 2012 – Awarepoint Corporation, the leading...

The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust Rolls Out World’s Largest Implementation of a Real-time Location System and Workflow Software

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:45:10 PST

Our RTLS solution helps top UK hospitals improve patient flow, equipment tracking, and hand hygiene compliance. Read more in our latest press release! SAN DIEGO – February 16, 2012 – Awarepoint...

Redux: Using RTLS To Improve Patient Safety

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:00:00 PST

In my September 7 blog in this space, I recounted some of the basic ways in which RTLS can play a role in making patient care safer. These included preventive maintenance of hospital equipment,...

Awarepoint Expands Board of Directors and Adds Seasoned Executives to Support Expanded Growth

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:21:59 PST

We’ve appointed former Eclipsys CEO R. Andrew Eckert to our board, Carlene Anteau as vice president of product marketing, and Erica Davidson as vice president of human resources. Read more about our...

Awarepoint Reports Record Sales and Installations for its Market-Leading Real-time Location System (RTLS) Solutions

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:42:53 PST

Our latest press release details the 89 hospitals that contracted with us last year to improve patient throughput and flow, care team efficiency, and asset inventory management and...

Leveraging New Technologies for Improvement – Disruptive Innovations in Healthcare

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:30:27 PST

Today Dr. Dennis O’Leary will be talking to attendees at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement 23rd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. Dr. O’Leary’s session, “Leveraging...

Supporting Nurses to Achieve Success

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:00:10 PST

A recent HealthLeaders article, “Engage Nurses to Raise Your Patient Safety Scores,” urges hospital leaders to get their nurses behind institutional patient safety and health care quality measurement...

Awarepoint Advances Industry Leadership with New Patented Technology

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:44:13 PST

We have received an unprecedented four U.S. patents for our real-time wireless location systems. Read all about our innovative RTLS solutions helping hospitals optimize revenue cycle management,...

RTLS Educational Webinars

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:03:59 PST

We’re providing free webinars to educate physicians, nurses, and hospital staff on how RTLS works, improves patient safety, automates workflow, and ultimately drives provider costs down. Throughout...

Putting Automatic Throughput in the OR

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:00:07 PST

This past week I had the opportunity to participate in the implementation of an RTLS system in the perioperative area.This particular hospital has a peri-operative area that covers three floors and...

Patient Tracking for the Elderly

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:00:08 PDT

Tracking RTLS-enabled automatic tracking and workflow orchestration technology promises to improve the care and overall hospital experience of elderly patients. As I was scanning the UK news this...

Video: RTLS for Healthcare

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:00:12 PDT

Chief Technology Officer, Matt Perkins explains our Real Time Location Solutions (RTLS) offered to the healthcare industry for patient and asset tracking and workflow automation. Our industry...

AwareAbout Quarterly Newsletter

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:20:00 PDT

Our first quarterly newsletter is going out today! We’d like to share with you a message from our CEO, Jay Deady, introducing the newsletter. If you’d like to subscribe to our newsletter, please...

Awarepoint Expands Senior Management Team

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:37:35 PDT

We're happy to welcome four accomplished healthcare executives to lead client management, solution management, and new client sales of enterprise-wide RTLS solutions. Read more in our latest press...

Awarepoint Corporation and MEDITECH Collaborate to Integrate Technology Platforms

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:02:13 PDT

We're proud to announce our new collaboration with MEDITECH, integrating its EHR with our RTLS solution. Monongahela Valley Hospital is the first to deploy the combined solution to drive increased ED...

Awarepoint Corporation Receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 North American RFID and RTLS Healthcare Competitive Strategy Leadership Award

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:28:34 PDT

We're excited to announce Frost & Sullivan has awarded us the North American RFID & RTLS Healthcare Competitive Strategy Leadership Award! Read more about our RTLS workflow automation...

Help for Hospital CFOs

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:28:34 PDT

Hospital CFO's face some significant challenges in the near future. For several decades America has been alarmed about rapidly rising health care costs, increasing at triple the overall rate of...

Using RTLS To Improve Patient Safety

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:39:01 PDT

How does RTLS help to improve patient safety? Let me count the ways (with apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning).Despite the intense interest in patient safety over the past two decades, there...

Awarepoint Corporation to Showcase Patient Tracking Board Solution at Allscripts Client Experience 2011

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:39:01 PDT

We’re in Nashville demoing how our real-time location system-enabled software positions hospitals to streamline workflow and enhance clinician efficiency, care delivery, and patient satisfaction....

Awarepoint Corporation Secures $27 Million in New Financing: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Leads Round

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:54:48 PDT

We have received new funding to drive further adoption of our aware360°Suite of RTLS-enabled healthcare workflow automation, awareness, and compliance solutions! Read about our healthcare solutions...

Socialized Medicine 2.1: The Impact of the (Clinical) Internet Cloud and RTLS

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:54:26 PDT

Let’s talk. Online today, millions of citizens expose, reveal, promote, document and portray their lives for the entire world to see, comment and experience. As sites such as Facebook, YouTube,...

RTLS Can Help Control Foot Traffic In The Operating Room

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:39:01 PDT

Frequent door openings during surgery to seek information American Journal of Medical Quality published a study in 2009 that looked at foot traffic in the operating room (OR). The study observed 28...

Hand Washing Prevents Infections

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:39:01 PDT

It is surprising that in the year 2011 we have not yet mastered the task of hand washing. In 1843, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was advocating hand washing to prevent disease. In the 1850’s Florence...

The Case for RTLS Enabled Automatic Tracking

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:39:01 PDT

I Run Track (Part 2) In my previous post, I introduced you to an emergency department (ED) charge nurse named Tracy. Tracy had a common problem: she was spending most of her shift running circles...

RTLS Can Improve Chances Of Heart Attack Survival

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:53:06 PDT

Heart disease has been the number-one killer of adults in the US for over 60 years. However, 75% of US hospitals currently lack primary percutaneous intervention (PCI) capability and rely on...