Healthcare Mobility Solutions Increase Productivity Of Task-Based Facility, Transport And Biomedical Workers With The CA50

Today's healthcare providers face constant budget pressures due to changing regulatory requirements, growth of planned care and decreases in fee-for-service and insurance reimbursements. With limited opportunity to increase revenue, providers are focusing on measures that improve productivity to help control costs and enable the continued delivery of quality care.

By nature, the hospital is a highly mobile environment — employees are constantly moving between floors and units to address critical issues or routine tasks. Many healthcare providers have already implemented mobility solutions to eliminate errors and increase productivity in medication administration, specimen collection and other bedside applications. While these applications have yielded significant benefits, providers can realize additional operational improvements by extending these technologies to other mobile workgroups within the healthcare enterprise — custodial and maintenance personnel, transport staff and biomedical technicians.

Management of these highly mobile workers is often less-than-optimal. To delegate a single task to a maintenance worker, a supervisor must first locate the employee. And once the task has been delegated, there is often no visibility into task status.