New Hospitals Select Vizzia Technologies for Advanced RTLS
Medical facility construction has shifted considerably in recent years. Now, there is a heightened sense of urgency to remodel, expand or build new clinics and hospitals to remain a health care provider of choice.
According to a 2022 hospital construction survey conducted by the American Hospital Association, hospitals continue to invest in acute care facilities, with construction projects underway or in the planning stages increasing from 16% in 2021 to 23% in 2022.
Increasingly, these new state-of-the-art facilities are incorporating innovative healthcare technology management (HTM) solutions early in the design process that are implemented during the construction phase.
Vizzia Technologies is a recognized leader in the development of advanced real-time location systems (RTLS). Recently, several prominent health care providers have collaborated with Vizzia on their new hospital construction projects.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Vizzia participated in an extensive two-year national evaluation process to provide the industry’s most advanced RTLS asset management solutions to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Children’s selected the Vizzia InVIEW software platform to provide real-time data analytics to improve patient care and Vizzia’s enhanced Environmental Monitoring solution to protect patients and critical medical supplies, including vaccines. Vizzia also services Children’s Health of Orange County in California, a level 1 pediatric trauma center.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is one of the largest pediatric clinical care providers in the country (1 million patient visits annually with 673 beds across three hospitals) and is consistently ranked among the top children’s hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.
Children’s new 70-acre medical campus features the Arthur M. Blank Hospital. The $1.5 billion health care project is the largest ever in the history of the state of Georgia. It includes a 9-story hospital with more than 1.5 million square feet of space and a total of 446 beds. Also attached to the hospital will be an 11-story, 325,000-square-foot medical office building.
The RTLS technology that will be deployed and managed by Vizzia at Children’s is also used at other leading pediatric hospitals across the country, including: Boston Children’s, Children’s Colorado, Cincinnati Children’s, Children’s Philadelphia, Stanford Children’s, Texas Children’s and St. Jude Children’s.
Grady Health System
Grady initially selected Vizzia to optimize its legacy asset tracking system. The Vizzia professional services team conducted clinical interviews to discover use cases and performed an extensive audit to ensure maximum facility coverage.
Vizzia then delivered two powerful software modules of asset management and environmental monitoring to Grady. This enabled their biomedical engineering department to monitor thousands of medical devices and clinical supplies in real-time across all facilities. Coupled with Vizzia’s fully managed solutions and on-site support team, they helped Grady to increase utilization rates of its devices and reduce staff time looking for clean supplies.
The Grady Health System in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the largest safety net health systems in the United States. Grady consists of the 953-bed Grady Memorial Hospital, six neighborhood health centers, and the Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center. With its nationally acclaimed emergency medical services, Grady has the premier Level I trauma center in the metro Atlanta region and handles over 700,000 patient visits each year. Grady was named one of the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals for the 8th year in a row and earned the HIMSS Analytics “Stage 7” designation.
Grady is building a new $227 million Center for Advanced Surgical Services (CASS) in downtown Atlanta. The expansion will increase Grady’s surgical clinic capacity by 45% and surgery capacity by 25%. This new 10-story, 577,000-square-foot facility will feature state-of-the-art technology. Based upon Vizzia’s proven RTLS solutions, Grady has awarded the company this major project.
Vizzia is also protecting Grady’s critical medical supplies, to include blood storage and COVID-19 vaccines. Real-time alerts let clinicians know if a refrigerator or freezer deviates from desired conditions to protect important and expensive products. Vizzia is the only RTLS provider to offer a fully managed service that provides live 24/7 customer service that proactively contacts clinicians to ensure alert resolution.
Piedmont Healthcare
Piedmont had successfully partnered with Vizzia at its flagship hospital in Atlanta, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars by tracking equipment and right sizing its fleet. Biomedical engineering executives selected Vizzia as their systemwide platform for asset management. The impressive results included $2 million in savings, increased productivity by 90% and increased equipment utilization by more than 20%.
Piedmont Healthcare is the largest provider in Georgia serving 3.4 million patients (80% of the state’s population) across 1,400 locations including 22 hospitals.
The new Marcus Tower in Atlanta is a $603 million, 16-story hospital with 408 beds. Vizzia was selected early in the project and collaborated with the hospital to have a modern RTLS network in place when the hospital opened during the COVID-19 pandemic, four months early.
Vizzia IOT Lab
Vizzia operates an IOT Lab onsite at the University of New Mexico. The Lab serves as an objective testing ground to evaluate emerging wireless sensor technologies (i.e., Bluetooth, Infrared, RFID, Ultrasound, Ultra-Wideband, and Wi-Fi). As Vizzia is hardware agnostic, they can recommend which solution will work best in a specific health care facility.
The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is the highest-ranked engineering program in the state. It was ranked as one of the Top 100 engineering programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report in 2021.
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