Apollo Hospital Chennai taps RFID for enhanced patient workflow
The Apollo Hospital Chennai will provide each patient with an Ekahau T301B badge tag that will track their movement within the 30,000 square foot hospital, as well as their current location and time spent there.
Ekahau Inc. teamed with India’s systems integrator ICEGEIN to deploy the Ekahau real time locating system at Apollo Hospital Chennai, which will enable administrators to identify in real-time where wait times are excessive.
ICEGEIN automated the process using Ekahau tags, allowing caregivers to press the buttons once a test is started and immediately after it is completed, allowing for online reports that will help the hospital to track if all the patients have completed the tests they have requested.
The tags also will allow hospital staff to be alerted if a patient leaves the facility before all of his or her procedures are complete.