Leverage your Wi-Fi for location-based services
That’s what our STANLEY Healthcare partner asked themselves while building a Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) platform with Cisco’s Wi-Fi-based solution. As a result, they transformed how medical centers enhance and protect their most critical assets – their people, patients, devices, and business.
Combining hardware and software, STANLEY Healthcare’s RTLS platform uses a hospital’s Wi-Fi network (that’s run on Cisco Wi-Fi technology) to update a mobile asset’s status and location via small radio frequency tags. The solution tracks in real-time hospital assets, including infusion devices, telemetry units, ventilators, beds, wheelchairs, etc. The same technology also supports staff safety and helps hospitals optimize patients’ flow through operating rooms and emergency departments. It even protects newborns through its STANLEY Healthcare Hugs system.
Fast forward to 2020, and the pandemic has increased the need for STANLEY Healthcare’s RTLS platform innovation. While COVID-19 has been disruptive, it also accelerated digital transformation strategies for many hospitals, such as in the UK. The UK government set a mandate for all National Health Service (NHS) hospitals to immediately adopt digital transformation initiatives. This happened as STANLEY Healthcare was working with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), which manages hospitals in Yorkshire in the UK. They had been in talks for two years about adopting STANLEY Healthcare’s RTLS solution as part of their digital transformation strategy. COVID-19 accelerated that adoption timeline.
Today, STANLEY Healthcare’s RTLS solution has enabled CHFT’s clinical staff to quickly find available assets that are clean and ready for use. The biomedical team can now efficiently manage the cleaning and maintenance process. Everything was done remotely and within a week! And, since the hospitals run on Cisco Wi-Fi technology, it was easy for the STANLEY Healthcare team to work with the staff to manage, inventory, and tag 1,000 pieces of equipment. Additionally, with the RTLS solution, they will be able to keep medications at a constant temperature protecting their patients’ safety while cutting down on costs.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Case Study
The offers include a free 90-day subscription to the Cisco DNA Spaces cloud-based location platform. They support the following key use cases with STANLEY Healthcare.
Cisco DNA Spaces can be quickly deployed on Cisco Aironet and Cisco Catalyst wireless networks to provide real-time location data and cloud monitoring for STANLEY Healthcare's Real-Time Location System (RTLS) solutions. The Cisco DNA Spaces and STANLEY Healthcare integration can give healthcare providers the real-time insights and information they need in an easy-to-deploy and highly scalable and reliable solution.
The offers cover a free 90-day Cisco DNA Spaces Extend subscription for new customers or a free 90-day upgrade to the Extend license for current Cisco DNA Spaces customers.
Current Cisco DNA Spaces Extend or Act customers can expand their subscriptions to cover additional areas free for 90 days.
The offers include account creation, activation, setup guidance and assistance, and 24x7 support for 90 days (all delivered remotely).
Customers can extend the subscriptions after 90 days by purchasing Cisco DNA Spaces Extend or Act subscriptions.
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