Intelligent InSites Empowers Institute for Medicines CEO Checklist for High Value Health Care Intelligent InSites

Inc., the leading provider of enterprise RTLS software helpi ng hospitals improve patient satisfaction and operational performance while supp orting multiple RFID and RTLS technologies, announced today its support for the CEO Checklist for High Value Health Care published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Fargo, ND, USA, June 27, 2012 -- Intelligent InSites Inc., the leading provider of enterprise RTLS software helping hospitals improve patient satisfaction and o perational performance while supporting multiple RFID and RTLS technologies, ann ounced today its support for the CEO Checklist for High Value Health Care publis hed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). "The need to provide effective patient care in the most efficient way has never been greater," said Dr. Raymond Gruby, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at I ntelligent InSites. "By promoting the institutional culture of continuous improv ement and optimized resource utilization, outlined in the CEO Checklist, healthc are organizations can transform the system of care delivery." The CEO Checklist for High Value Health Care strongly correlates with the key el ements Intelligent InSites believes must be part of the healthcare system. It mus t be a system that is streamlined, value-driven, and quality-centered, added Dr. Gruby. Intelligent InSites, a healthcare software provider dedicated to improving healt h care through the use of healthcare information technology, including RFID and RTLS systems, is already empowering many of the ideas described in the CEO Check list: Culture of continuous improvement: The Intelligent InSites RTLS solution can help healthcare providers automate man y manual processes, such as finding available equipment, monitoring the temperat ure of medication fridges, or checking the status of rooms and other resources. In addition, healthcare providers can effortlesslyand in real-timemonitor KPIs such as door-to-triage, door-to-doc, and door-to-admit, then use this information to improve patient workflow processes, as well as report performance against targe t metrics. IT best practices automated, reliable information to and from the point of care: Intelligent InSites solution provides healthcare organizations with instant acces s to automatically-collected and reliable data regarding the location and status of medical inventory, staff, and patients, allowing them make timely and accura te decisions at the point of care. Resource utilization optimized use of personnel, physical space, and other resou rces: By understanding actual utilization rates of equipment, rooms, and other resourc es; and by improving workflows with real-time information delivered by Intellige nt InSites asset management solution, optimal inventory levels can be achieved an d maintained, reducing procurement costs and ongoing maintenance expenses. Furth ermore, by implementing location-enabled rental management processes, the proces s of making rental requests and rental pick-ups can be optimized to eliminate un necessary rental expenses. The status information of the rental equipment allows hospitals to pay only for the rental equipment that is actually being used. In addition to hard-dollar cost savings, significant productivity enhancements are gained by providing care givers, biomedical engineers, transporters, and other s taff with the ability to instantly track the location and the status of people a nd assets via a browser on any computer or any handheld device, such as iPhone o

r iPad allowing staff to spend more time at the patient bed side. Embedded safeguards supports and prompts to reduce injury and infection: By utilizing RTLS, requests for assistance can be delivered automatically, on th e patients behalf, when the system detects a potentially troublesome situation, s uch as a patient leaving a room without assistance or entering a restricted area . These proactive notifications can help reduce potential injury. Additionally, the Intelligent InSites software provides a real-time map view of the facility, with an icon representing each staff member, patient, or even equipment, as they move around the facility. This enables staff to head to a specific alert locati on without any delaya tremendous improvement over traditional nurse call systems, which rely on the patient to activate alerts and do not provide their current l ocation. RTLS solutions can also be instrumental in infection control. In the ev ent that a patient tests positive for a contagious disease, staff can instantly access a report that identifies all of the locations, patients, staff, and equip ment that the infected patient came in contact with. Care providers can then use this information to take appropriate actions to contain the spread of the infec tious disease. Another advantage of using an RTLS solution is to gain instant ac cess to meaningful real-time and historical information for analyzing infection patterns and assisting with compiling data requested by regulatory government ag encies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Internal transparency visible progress in performance, outcomes, and costs: Intelligent InSites business intelligence (BI) solution provides healthcare organ izations with easy access to vast amounts of contextual data stored in the Intel ligent InSites BI database, allowing them to analyze trends, identify improvemen t opportunities within a hospital or across multiple hospitals, and report on Ke y Performance Indicators (KPIs). This enables healthcare organizations to gain e nterprise-wide visibility into their processes and make a transformational impac t on their organizations performance. Healthcare providers interested in exploring how to empower the ideas shared in the IOMs CEO Checklist for High Value Health should contact Intelligent InSites b y emailing info@intelligentinsites.com or calling 1-866-520-9113. About Intelligent InSites: Intelligent InSites helps healthcare organizations improve care and reduce costs by transforming automatically-collected data into actionable insights. Through its interoperable, hardware-neutral, healthcare real-time location system (RTLS) software platform, Intelligent InSites gathers data from real-time location, co ndition sensing, and other systems; then delivers meaningful information to the right person, at the right time, on the right device. Intelligent InSites custome rs gain enterprise-wide visibility and are able to impact continuous process imp rovements, resulting in remarkable financial and quality of care outcomes. For m ore information, visit www.IntelligentInSites.com. Contact: Joanna Wyganowska Intelligent InSites 102 Broadway Fargo, ND 58102 701-893-2080 press@intelligentinsites.com http://www.IntelligentInSites.com