Healthcare
Elpas Solutions provides advanced healthcare technology using a Triple-Technology RTLS system combining RF, IR, LF, and BLE to deliver precise real-time tracking and protection of patients, staff, and medical assets, enhancing workflow, safety, resource utilization, and regulatory compliance across various healthcare settings, alongside wireless emergency call solutions integrated with flexible alert options and scalable management software.
Elpas Solutions delivers a comprehensive range of infant protection, staff utilization, medical equipment management, and wireless emergency call solutions for healthcare organizations.
Active RFID/RTLS Healthcare Solutions
Protection & Visibility of Patients, Staff & Assets
Elpas Triple-Technology is internationally recognized as the optimal approach to RTLS, delivering precise real-time location awareness with the accuracy and flexibility required by today’s healthcare facilities. Elpas’ RTLS methodology employs continuous:
- Radio Frequency (RF) communication for cost-effective real-time zone location
- Infrared (IR) communication for explicit room and sub-room tracking accuracy
- Adjustable Low Frequency (LF) for instant doorway and pinpoint locations
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for communication between Elpas Shield and Elpas LoneProtect
Elpas’ field-proven Triple-Technology ensures reliable, accurate real-time location awareness in challenging healthcare environments. Elpas offers a complete range of advanced solutions suitable for large hospitals or small nursing homes where real-time identification and location of staff, patients, residents, and assets are mission critical. The result is enhanced workflow, improved patient care and safety, improved resource utilization, audit trails for regulatory compliance, and an overall reduction of operating costs.
Key features include:
- Unified platform for multiple applications
- ID & location visibility of patients, staff, and assets
- Flexible patient/staff/family escort options
- Application-specific Active RFID Tags
- High availability & supervised distributed control
- Scalable from single door to campus environments
- Easy-to-use tracking and management software
- Integration with third-party management systems
- Selection of alert communication choices
- Advanced reporting options
- Ethernet compliant infrastructure
- CE, FCC, IC compliant
Wireless Nurse Call
- Protects patients anywhere in the facility
- Enables patients to feel safe & secure
- Streamlines workflow; reducing operating costs
- Generates staff-specific patient call logs
Hand Hygiene Monitoring
- Reduces the rate of healthcare-acquired infections
- Monitors adherence to hygiene compliance policies
- Generates reports per caregiver/examination room
- Helps identify the source of an infection outbreak
Hospital Staff Protection
- Protects lone workers and employees at risk
- Enables staff members to feel safe and secure
- Supports hard-wired or wireless call-points
Medical Asset Management
- Enhances asset optimization; prevents asset shrinkage
- Streamlines workflow; reduces operating costs
- Improves regulation compliance
Infant Protection
- Guards against abductions and mother/baby mismatches
- Enforces accountable match test discharge procedure
- Prevents unauthorized movements or transfers of infants
- Continuous baby supervision
- Provides peace of mind for parents and maternity staff
Wandering Patient Protection
- Protects against patient wandering or elopement
- Maintains patients' freedom and independence
- Continuous patient supervision
- Provides peace of mind for families and medical staff
Acute Care
Elpas delivers a complete line of Safety, Security, and Visibility Solutions for assisted living communities. These solutions help enhance resident safety, streamline operational workflows, and protect the vulnerable.
- Staff Duress Call
- Nurse Call Integration
- Infant Protection
- Asset Management
- Elopement Prevention
- Temperature Monitoring
- Patient Flow
- Hand Hygiene
Senior Care
Elpas delivers a complete line of Safety, Security, and Visibility Solutions for assisted living communities. These solutions help enhance resident safety, streamline operational workflows, and protect the vulnerable.
- Age-in-Place
- Patient Wandering
- Temperature Monitoring
- Wireless Nurse Call
- Staff Safety
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