NewYork-Presbyterian Installs AeroScout For Asset Visibility
AeroScout, Inc., the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility solutions, announced recently an installation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the nation's leading hospitals, ranked sixth in U.S. News & World Report's guide to "America's Best Hospitals." The Hospital has launched AeroScout's solution to track thousands of infusion pumps and other high-value equipment across four of its distributed campuses in New York City.
"Improved visibility of our assets allows us to free up the time spent monitoring these assets, so our staff and technicians can do what they do best - provide high quality patient care," said Dr. Steven Erde, Vice President, Information Services Technology and Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. "We chose AeroScout because they offer a solution that is scalable to handle many thousands of assets, and meet the needs of a wide variety of hospital users across our large, distributed environment."
The AeroScout Healthcare Visibility Solution has been installed at four of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's campuses - NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian/Allen Pavilion. The choice of AeroScout and installation follows a comprehensive review of the vendors and technologies in the asset tracking, real-time location (RTLS) and RFID markets. The Hospital has deployed over 3,000 tracked assets so far, and plans to expand to 10,000.
The solution uses AeroScout's Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tags to track the location and maintenance status of Sigma infusion pumps and other assets, over the Hospital's Cisco Wi-Fi network. The tags are mounted on the pumps with a custom bracket created by AeroScout and Sigma. As they move throughout the Hospital, they are tracked in real-time. When a tag requires cleaning or maintenance, nurses and other staff can press a call button on the tag to send a request to the biomedical engineering department.
Hospital staff use AeroScout's Web-based MobileView software platform to view current or historical asset movement, and search for pumps by maintenance status. Because the AeroScout software and Cisco network are distributed across the facilities, staff have an enterprise view of their medical assets from a single Web interface. As the installation expands, access to MobileView will extend to multiple applications and stakeholders within the Hospital, including nursing and materials management.
"As one of the world's most innovative and respected hospitals, NewYork- Presbyterian Hospital represents a perfect example of the strong value of asset visibility in a healthcare environment," said Gabi Daniely, vice president of marketing and product strategy at AeroScout. "We have been honored to work with NewYork-Presbyterian's team to uphold their high standards and meet their needs across a large-scale, distributed and busy environment."
The NewYork-Presbyterian installation is one of several new hospital customers announced this week by AeroScout. (See AeroScout Announces Several New Asset and Patient Tracking Installations in Hospitals Across the Globe). AeroScout is demonstrating its full set of solutions, including the newly announced wireless Temperature Monitoring, in booth # 2335 at the HIMSS 2008 Conference, February 24 through 28 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. In addition, AeroScout solutions will be highlighted at multiple locations throughout the conference with prominent industry partners. For more information on AeroScout's Healthcare Visibility Suite, please visit www.aeroscout.com.
About AeroScout
AeroScout is the market leader in Unified Asset Visibility
solutions. The company's products accurately locate and monitor assets and people over standard Wi-Fi networks, to improve and automate business processes. AeroScout's global customer base includes many of the Fortune 500 and the world's leading hospitals. Founded in 2000, AeroScout pioneered the Wi-Fi visibility market by introducing the industry's first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and is widely recognized as leading the market in number of tags shipped. AeroScout is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Australia. For more information, please visit www.aeroscout.com.
SOURCE: AeroScout, Inc.