RTLS Insights Support All Phases of Your Real Time Health System Journey   The ability to react in the moment allows healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) to maintain patient flow and optimize capacity management. Whether it's a spike in wait times, delays in discharges, staff shortages, or equipment malfunction, each day brings new and often unexpected challenges. Real time location solutions (RTLS) are a fundamental building block to an HDO’s strategy toward a real time health system. Gartner defines the real time health system as “an operational, management and technology pa ..read more

  The Real Time Health System Model helps healthcare providers understand their current ability to respond to change in the moment and identify ways to improve.   As we emerge from the pandemic, US hospitals continue to struggle. According to a survey by KaufmaHall, more than half of hospitals expected negative operating margins in 2022. This is causing healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) to consider digitization as a stepwise approach to efficient and effective care. One of the core values of digitization is unlocking islands of locked information and sharing that across the e ..read more

  Making location information available to apps across the HDO increases ROI   Integration with other applications is a big reason for the explosive growth in the RTLS market. Solutions like AiRISTA’s Flow Studio make integration for healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) as simple as dragging & dropping logic modules on a design pallet as part of a low-code integration UI. “To use the data from RTLS to improve performance, it’s important to have a scalable, enterprise-grade platform that can support one or multiple locations and can manage many applications in a centralized p ..read more

  Customers explore new use cases made possible by BLE Angle of Arrival   AiRISTA was invited to be part of Cisco’s Co-sell Partner Pavilion during Cisco Live, held June 5-8 in Las Vegas. The Co-sell Pavilion is a showcase of partners receiving targeted go-to-market support from Cisco. Announced during the event was AiRSITA’s integration of it BLE Angle of Arrival solution with the Cisco Catalyst IOx Framework. AiRISTA has created a Docker container managed through the Cisco IOx framework to provide complete access to specific access point software and hardware resources. Customers ..read more

  Medical equipment asset tracking | AiRISTA    Keeping track of the wide variety of healthcare facility assets can be extremely challenging, though utterly necessary. How can you be sure where everything is? What assets are in good condition and which need maintenance? Without knowing these things right away, your operation loses valuable time searching for equipment, often in situations requiring immediate attention. Normally, your clinical operations team uses manual techniques based on tribal knowledge for  hospital asset tracking and inventory management. But there’s ..read more

  Healthcare digitization accelerates as a result of the pandemic.     HIMSS23 attendance was strong. Roughly 35,000 people attended, a nearly 25% increase over 2022. Digitization of healthcare was a major theme, accelerated by Covid and the need to share information and treat patients at a distance. Five themes emerged at the conference in both the sessions as well as exhibiting vendors.   Staff burnout was on everyone’s mind. A 2022 survey by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses found, “More than two-thirds (67%) of respondents stated they intend to leave t ..read more

  The Market Update forecasts 20% CAGR over 5 years for location services.     AiRISTA is excited about the Bluetooth® SIG Market Update which confirms Bluetooth solutions are the way of the future. According to the Market Update, total annual Bluetooth device shipments will reach 5.4 billion in 2023 with an expected CAGR of 9% over the next 5 years.     More specifically, location services will experience 20% CAGR through 2027 reaching unit shipments of 515 million annually.       “New regulatory safety requirements in manufacturing, more str ..read more

  Explore how RTLS solutions are being used in the real world     AiRISTA commissioned a survey in late 2022 of customers and their practical experience using RTLS solutions. With the help of HIMSS and the marketing agency Brafton, the results explore how customers use RTLS, the value returned, underlying technologies, and trends. The survey’s insights offer best practices and suggestions for how to best manage and extend an RTLS solution. Click here to download the survey.   The survey asked 23 questions. The following are a sample of some of the insights. How is the RTLS ..read more

  Leverage appropriate resources at each step as you navigate the selection of an RTLS solution.   Gartner® has published the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services™. The report evaluates RTLS vendors based on their “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision”. Vendors that perform well across both are positioned in the upper right quadrant designated as “leaders”. AiRISTA is pleased to be recognized as a leader for the second consecutive year. Click here for a complimentary report. The Gartner Magic Quadrant is one of several resources companies can use when making d ..read more

  AiRISTA Demonstrates BLE submeter location tracking at Rockwell/Cisco/Panduit Manufacturing Advanced Technology Center The corporate corridor on the western edge of Mexico City is home to a technology demonstration center hosted by Rockwell, Cisco, and Panduit. The Manufacturing Advanced Technology Center (MATC) is a large lab and training center of working demonstrations that showcase the latest control systems and the network infrastructure supporting them. As world class manufacturers move production to Mexico, the MATC offers a firsthand view of fully functioning production systems ..read more