How Does Healthcare Asset Management Improve Patient Care and Hospital Efficiency?

Leading hospitals and medical centers are enhancing healthcare asset management strategies to improve patient care efficiency and streamline medical equipment tracking.

Every healthcare facility strives to deliver the best possible medical services to patients – administering appropriate treatments and quality care in a setting that’s safe and secure. The clinicians and support staff who are at the heart of healthcare rely on a sophisticated hospital equipment management system that supports their work as caregivers. 

The Challenge of Managing Medical Equipment

Patients don’t give much thought to it but managing hospital equipment tracking – ensuring that the right equipment is available when and where needed– is highly complex. It requires time and effort from clinicians and staff and is challenging given the size of today’s healthcare facilities and the competing critical priorities that caregivers must balance.

Fortunately, there are automated asset management solutions that help improve the critical connection between medical equipment tracking and maintaining patient care. Leading hospitals and medical centers carefully plan and strategically implement healthcare asset management systems designed to alleviate much of the complexity and cost.

With real-time hospital asset tracking, they reduce the time that clinicians, clinical engineering staff and other caregivers spend searching for equipment and devices. They also take advantage of medical device optimization solutions that ensure devices are clean, functioning and ready to serve the next patient.

Case Study: Saint Francis Medical Center’s Infusion Pump Management Transformation

Many hospitals and clinics have found success by implementing infusion pump management strategies to improve asset utilization. Due to their mobile design and widespread use of infusion pumps throughout healthcare facilities, ensuring the efficient distribution and availability of infusion pumps in hospitals is difficult without visibility into the location of these critical devices.

Consider Saint Francis Medical Center. This midwestern hospital had two clear goals:  

1. Improve device management and increase efficiencies to ensure the availability of infusion pumps 

2. Enhance medical device optimization and extend the longevity of hospital equipment 

By integrating the BD Alaris™ Asset Management interface of the BD Alaris™ System with Securitas Healthcare’s MobileView® Software Platform, Saint Francis Medical Center achieved:

Case Study: AdventHealth Orlando’s PAR Level Management Success

Another example is AdventHealth Orlando, which has revolutionized PAR level management of infusion pumps. Personnel are able to visualize in real-time where soiled pumps have accumulated in utility rooms. This allows staff to focus their efforts on cleaning and returning the largest pools of pumps to patient care.  

As a result, the hospital:

The Future of Asset Management in Healthcare

Securitas Healthcare recognizes the importance of a defined healthcare asset management strategy for optimizing equipment utilization, increasing caregiver efficiencies and positively impacting patient care.  

In addition to our hospital Asset Management solutions, we partner with leading infusion pump vendors, healthcare technology providers, and real-time location tracking experts. Our broad spectrum of healthcare technology partners extends beyond medical equipment tracking to empower caregivers and improve hospital efficiency.