Amid infectious disease outbreaks
and database hacking and privacy intrusions, asset tracking strategies and
tactics are gaining a fresh perspective within healthcare providers.
Integrating an OR with advanced
technology typically involves linking three key components: Automation,
telemedicine and a direct interface with a facility?s information system.
About one in 25 hospital patients
contracts at least one healthcare- associated infection (HAI) and more than 50
percent of all HAIs occur outside the ICU; these faclities are beating the odds.
Thanks to data breaches, infectious disease
outbreaks and incidents of physical violence, the days of seemingly
unfettered vendor access to clinicians has been severely limited.