Five years ago, even the most cutting-edge real time location system (RTLS) technology required hospitals to accept a trade-off. Hospitals could opt for a highly accurate RTLS, but the system would require heavy infrastructure, a lengthy installation, and a hefty price tag. Or hospitals could choose a less expensive system that ran on lighter infrastructure and a Wi-Fi network, but the RTLS would deliver less accurate, less actionable data. Real time location solutions built on these older technologies have largely failed to deliver the ROI that hospitals were promised when they signed their c ..read more

“Where’s the vehicle?” In any vehicle yard in the post-assembly finished vehicle supply chain, this is the question on which yard drivers and management have become fixated. Drivers focus on it so they can readily locate the right vehicle and take it to where it’s supposed to go next — a marshaling point for shipment to a dealer, or to accessorization, customization, or repair stations. Yard managers care about it because time spent hunting for misplaced vehicles saps yard productivity and even leads to incomplete shipments. Increasingly, vehicle yards are investing in location intelligence to ..read more

Download the case study   The Client Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (JHMC) is a 400+ bed hospital in Queens, N.Y. The hospital’s emergency department — a designated Level 1 Trauma Center — is the busiest in New York. JHMC primarily serves culturally diverse and densely populated areas in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. As of 2023, JHMC annually treats approximately 17,000 inpatients, 105,000 ED patients, and 352,000 ambulatory patients. As part of the MediSys Health Network, JHMC operates Flushing Hospital, the Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home, and a multi-specialty physician group wit ..read more

A nurse in the middle of a busy shift enters a room on a routine visit to take a patient’s vitals. She’s immediately confronted by the patient’s spouse, who’s irate about the medications the patient was given. The nurse uses the de-escalation measures she’s learned from the hospital-mandated training, but the patient’s spouse doesn’t calm down. She doesn’t know whether the incident will escalate, but she knows one thing: She doesn’t feel safe. These kinds of workplace violence incidents against nurses are on the rise, and hospitals are responding with new measures to protect their staff. Some ..read more

Healthcare workers have experienced a dramatic increase in workplace violence in recent years. In one survey, nearly 82% of nurses reported experiencing a violent event in the past year. This has the potential to exacerbate existing labor challenges, as 6 in 10 nurses say they’ve left or considered leaving their jobs due to these events. This month’s news roundup dives into the increased rates of workplace violence in healthcare as well as what states are doing to better protect healthcare workers. NNU Report Shows Increased Rates of Workplace Violence Experienced by Nurses Healthcare workers ..read more

Cognosos is addressing the significant challenges faced by U.S. hospitals, including the loss of millions of dollars due to stolen, lost, and misplaced equipment, and the high incidence of non-fatal workplace violence experienced by 40 percent of healthcare workers in the last two years. Their solution leverages real-time tracking technology and AI to ensure mobile medical equipment is readily available for nurses and clinical teams, thereby enhancing efficiency and eliminating the need for nurses to search for equipment. This technology not only facilitates better patient care but also addre ..read more

Healthcare professionals face more workplace violence than employees in almost any other occupation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. COVID-19 supercharged these already sky-high rates, and the trend has shown no sign of slowing. In March 2022, nearly half of hospital nurses surveyed by National Nurses United reported witnessing or experiencing workplace violence—a nearly 100 percent increase over the previous year. Workplace violence affects the capacity of the healthcare system and the welfare of the people it serves. Eighty-five percent of physicians surveyed by the America ..read more

Healthcare workers face the highest rate of non-fatal workplace violence of any profession, including police officers. To address this danger we launched Cognosos Protect. By layering advanced AI on an infrastructure that is affordable and easy to install, hospitals can provide coverage over their entire campus.   To read more about the product, and how the badge is designed to de-escalate situations and keep healthcare workers safer,  check out this article by Healthcare Brew. The post How a new workplace duress product can keep healthcare workers safe appeared first on COGNO ..read more

As physical and verbal assaults against healthcare workers continue to increase, new technology allows hospitals to quickly and accurately locate imperiled workers and identify problematic encounters.    Research indicates that 40% of healthcare workers were exposed to workplace violence in the last two years. In fact, workplace violence inside healthcare settings has become so serious that the industry experiences more non-fatal workplace violence than any other profession–outpacing even law enforcement and wreaking havoc on an industry already struggling with understaffing and ..read more

Visit any vehicle yard in the post-assembly finished vehicle supply chain, and you’ll spot something so ordinary and ubiquitous that no one ever gives it a thought, or asks ‘why?’. Which is this: every vehicle parking space is numbered—EV0122, or EV0123, or something along those lines—thousands and thousands and thousands of parking spaces, each with their own number. Of course, they’re numbered, you say. How else can we keep track of which vehicle is where? How else can we attain the industry’s Holy Grail—a high level of space-level accuracy? We’ll answer that second question shortly. But a l ..read more