CenTrak Steals the Show at VHA RTLS in Atlanta
At the VHA RTLS event in Atlanta, Dr. Ari Naim, CEO of CenTrak, highlighted the company's high-performance, scalable, and highly accurate Real-Time Location System as an ideal solution for healthcare, emphasizing its broad applications beyond asset tracking to include patient and staff tracking, and its role as a critical data hub for optimizing hospital processes.
Dr. Ari Naim, CEO and Co-Founder of CenTrak, spoke about the future path for Real-Time Location System (RTLS) adoption in the healthcare marketplace. There was standing room only when Dr. Naim spoke at the Department of Veterans Affairs VHA Real Time Location Systems event in Atlanta, GA on June 2. He presented the key principles of an ideal Real Time Location System installation: high performance, 100% room and bay-level accuracy, reliability, scalability, and ease of installation and integration with existing systems.
The high level of accuracy and scalability enables the RTLS to be used as a reliable data source for many future clinical applications. The potential applications or use cases go well beyond asset tracking, including patient tracking and staff locating. A well-planned Real-Time Location System can serve as a key data hub to inform and optimize many hospital processes.
Not surprisingly, the ideal RTLS solution Dr. Naim outlined was actually the CenTrak RTLS – The Smarter Real-Time Location System™ for healthcare. To learn more, please visit: www.centrak.com.
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