CenTrak Advances Its RTLS Platform Through Enhanced Integrations
CenTrak has enhanced its real-time location system (RTLS) platform by achieving Epic Toolbox designation and completing Rauland’s Vendor Integration Partner Program, enabling seamless interoperability with Epic and Rauland’s Responder Enterprise to provide healthcare providers with integrated real-time visibility of staff, patients, and equipment, automated clinical workflows, and improved nurse call and communication functionalities that support operational efficiency and patient care.
CenTrak, a leader in real-time location system (RTLS) solutions, has announced expanded integration capabilities with two major healthcare technology platforms. The company has received Epic Toolbox designation for the RTLS category and has successfully completed Rauland’s Vendor Integration Partner (VIP) Program validation process for Responder Enterprise interoperability. These achievements build on CenTrak’s established vendor relationships and reflect its ongoing focus on out-of-the-box integrations that simplify deployment, scale easily, and expand RTLS access across healthcare environments.
According to Sid Nair, SVP, Product Management at CenTrak, interoperability is central to delivering a modern healthcare experience and supports measurable improvements in safety and efficiency. By standardizing integrations with industry-leading solutions like Epic and Rauland, CenTrak helps providers unify critical workflow intelligence across systems they depend on daily. These enhancements honor CenTrak's history of open integrations and position health systems to better leverage real-time data for operational decision-making and patient care.
CenTrak’s RTLS suite, now available in Epic Toolbox, delivers in-app visibility to the real-time locations of staff, patients, and mobile medical equipment while automating clinical workflows. Through the Rauland VIP Program, CenTrak’s integration with Responder Enterprise further enhances capabilities across nurse call, staff communication, and workflow platforms by enabling automated nurse call cancellation, real-time response documentation, and seamless staff duress alerting.
Together, these platform integrations underscore CenTrak’s continued investment in standards-based, interoperable solutions that scale with healthcare organizations’ evolving needs while helping care teams work more efficiently and focus on patient care.
About CenTrak
CenTrak empowers healthcare leaders with actionable data to increase productivity, reduce operating costs, and transform patient care via market-leading locating and sensing IoT solutions. The organization was recognized as the 2024 IoT Health & Wellness Company of the Year by IoT Breakthrough and the 2024 Company of the Year in global healthcare RTLS by Frost & Sullivan. Founded in 2007, CenTrak is trusted by more than 2,000 healthcare organizations around the world.
About Rauland
Rauland is a leader in advanced clinical communications and workflow solutions for hospitals worldwide. Through combined hardware, software, and analytics, its innovations and interoperability power hospital rooms now and into the future. Rauland supports clinical staffing, evidence-based protocols, and quality of care—for higher patient safety, improved staff satisfaction, and a sharper focus on timely, efficient responses to patient needs. Rauland collaborates with value added resellers (VARs) to address customer needs by leveraging their expertise in delivering tailored solutions, ensuring seamless integrations, and providing specialized support. Rauland is a business of AMETEK, Inc., a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions.
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