DuressRT Selected as “Best IoT Healthcare Security Solution”
CenTrak’s cloud-based DuressRT application, recognized as the “Best IoT Healthcare Security Solution” by MedTech Breakthrough Awards, utilizes a scalable Bluetooth Low Energy Multi-Mode Platform with wearable RTLS badges to provide accurate, cost-effective, and rapid staff duress response in healthcare settings, featuring durable, user-friendly badges integrated with the ConnectRT SaaS platform for discreet emergency alerts, real-time location tracking, and efficient incident management.
CenTrak's cloud-based DuressRT application has been recognized as the “Best IoT Healthcare Security Solution” in the 8th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program. DuressRT is part of CenTrak’s suite of software offerings, providing a convenient and affordable way to enable rapid responses to staff duress and safety events in healthcare environments.
DuressRT leverages the industry’s first scalable Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Multi-Mode Platform. The solution uses wearable Real-Time Location System (RTLS) badges with a hybrid architecture, allowing seamless transitions between BLE and CenTrak Clinical-Grade Locating (CGL) environments. This approach increases location accuracy in critical areas such as emergency departments and behavioral health units, while offering more economical deployment options elsewhere in the facility.
According to Marnie Lange Cossette, Vice President of Product Management at CenTrak, adopting RTLS staff duress solutions supports security teams and provides peace of mind by enabling the fastest possible response to workplace violence incidents. The technology is designed to be cost-effective and scalable, making it accessible to more healthcare facilities.
CenTrak’s staff duress solution, integrated with the centralized ConnectRT SaaS platform, equips employees with the ability to discreetly summon security and nearby colleagues through a purpose-built RTLS badge. Features of the badge include:
- IP67 durability
- Extended battery life
- Easy over-the-air maintenance
- User notifications (diagnostic LEDs and audible tone)
- Dedicated emergency button with a recessed design to prevent false alerts
- Instant acknowledgment when an alert is received by the system
The DuressRT software provides an intuitive user interface, efficient event and alert management, and incident response reporting. Staff can also use a “follow” feature in the map view for real-time updates and active location changes for colleagues in duress.
Steve Johansson, managing director of MedTech Breakthrough, highlighted the importance of such solutions, noting that violence against healthcare professionals has reached unprecedented levels and that exposure to workplace violence impairs patient care and leads to psychological distress. DuressRT is seen as a paradigm shift in ensuring staff duress alerts are immediately addressed to support staff, prevent escalation, and enhance safety.
CenTrak’s comprehensive suite of RTLS solutions also includes applications for Staff Duress, Infant Protection, and Wander Management. By consolidating asset management, workflow automation, hand hygiene compliance monitoring, and more onto a unified platform, CenTrak amplifies the value of location data and increases facility ROI. The company aims to continuously elevate the human experience for healthcare professionals and patients, creating safer environments and supporting better outcomes.
About CenTrak
CenTrak empowers healthcare leaders with actionable data to increase productivity, reduce operating costs, and transform patient care through market-leading locating and sensing IoT solutions. Founded in 2007, CenTrak is trusted by more than 2,000 healthcare organizations worldwide.
About MedTech Breakthrough
MedTech Breakthrough is part of Tech Breakthrough, a market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership. The MedTech Breakthrough Awards honor excellence and innovation in medical and health technology companies, products, services, and people across various categories, including patient experience, medical devices, clinical administration, connected healthcare, and healthcare cybersecurity.
Related
Extend Your RTLS Asset Tracking System into Staff Duress Technology
Healthcare organizations using Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) for asset tracking can extend their existing infrastructure to implement integrated staff duress technology, enhancing caregiver safety without the need for new systems, thereby maximizing ROI, simplifying IT management, and addressing rising workplace violence challenges in healthcare.
How BLE Staff Duress Systems Improve Safety in Healthcare
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) staff duress systems enhance healthcare safety by enabling staff to discreetly and instantly send location-based alerts via wearable badges during emergencies, facilitating rapid, targeted responses that address the limitations of traditional security measures and help reduce workplace violence, burnout, and compromised patient care.
Leveraging Bluetooth Low-Energy Technology in Healthcare
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology is transforming healthcare by enabling low-power, reliable wireless connectivity in medical devices, remote monitoring tools, and wearables, with BLE Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) enhancing security, asset and patient tracking, and staff workflow optimization to improve patient care and operational efficiency.
Strategies for Building an Effective Staff Safety Program in Your Hospital
The webinar presents practical, data-driven strategies and innovative RTLS solutions, including a live demo of CenTrak's staff duress application, to help hospitals enhance staff safety amid workforce shortages and violence, while ensuring compliance with Joint Commission Standards through trend analysis and effective violence prevention programs.
CenTrak Unveils the First BLE Multi-Mode Platform for RTLS
CenTrak has launched the industry's first scalable Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Multi-Mode Platform for Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS), featuring a hybrid architecture that seamlessly integrates BLE with Clinical-Grade Locating environments to provide healthcare organizations with interoperable, cost-effective, and precise location tracking through durable, feature-rich badges and a unified cloud-based software platform.
Q&A with Mary Jagim: Data-Driven Consultant | Centrak
Mary Jagim, a nurse with over 25 years of experience primarily in emergency departments, shares her lifelong dedication to healthcare, insights on supporting clinical staff amid rising workplace violence, and her passion for diverse patient care and healthcare technology advancements.