Automatic tracking System

Here we go again.........

We recently went to this to track our staff in the ER. It is ok i guess but it has not changed our patient care in any way. We can just know where the staff is as long as they have on there tracking device. Personally I have enough stuff to carry around without adding something else.

Sorry.

I thought tracking ER patients was new.

It would be great to know who was in X-ray, CT, transferred (to what bed), discharged, an so on.

This is NOT about tracking nurses except to know which nurse accompanied the patient to radiology or is transferring the patient to ICU.

Is there a thread I can review?

We had a system like that for a hospital I worked at near Chicago. We called it our "Eyes". They blinked with red leds. It was about 1/2 the size of a pager, and we clipped it to our scrubs. That way if we needed to be paged and we were in the breakroom or in x-ray, staff could page us in that location. Our hospital was surrounded by a 5 mile in diameter fiberoptic cable. The community college's off campus location and the gym were located inside the cable. As long as we had our eyes on, we could be found.

Sorry, I am asking about technology that tracks PATIENTS.

It is specific to emergency departments.

…The automatic tracking software provides real-time, wireless tracking of the location of all patients and medical equipment in an emergency department….

…The information is communicated in real time on electronic tracking boards on workstations throughout the department enabling staff to know the location of all patients without any manual updating required. The elimination of data entry and the ability to generate detailed reports of all patient visits with timestamps of key milestones assists emergency departments…

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-patient-care-technology-system-customer-receives-national-nursing-/2006/02/23/1401514.htm

Yeah, it can do that too. When the hospital I was working at was using it, we were "beta" testing it for use with patients. I wasn't around when/if it was implimented.

Sorry, I wish I knew the name of the system.

good luck