The recent Webinar Wednesday session “RTLS & Staff Safety within Behavioral Health Settings” was presented by Stephanie Andersen, managing partner of ZulaFly, and Sandra Rasmussen, senior vice president sales and marketing of Sonitor. It was co-sponsored by Sonitor and ZulaFly and eligible for 1 credit from the ACI.
Andersen and Rasmussen discussed the value add of an RTLS system within behavioral health facilities with a focus on staff safety. Details on the importance of location accuracy, analytics and how alerts are administered were covered during the webinar.
The duo provided additional insights via a question-and-answer session.
One question was, “Can staff alerts be sent to any device?”
Anderson said, “Yes, so out of the box, alerts can be sent via text, email at the mobile app pop up. … So, any communication device that you are already using, we can tie into and send those alerts to.”
Another question was, “How easy is it to add on additional applications?”
Rasmussen replied, “So, from an infrastructure standpoint, if the use case, for example, that we talked about, is staff safety then the technology that is deployed is the same technology that would be used to support additional use cases.”
She said that from an infrastructure standpoint, if the facility is looking to ensure room-level coverage for staff safety, there would not be any, or I would say insignificant additional infrastructure, that would be required.
If additional use cases, such as patient safety or patient locating or asset locating or asset management, are the use cases to be added on then there would be additional tags that would be required, but from an infrastructure standpoint, little, if any, new infrastructure would be required.
Exactly 100 individuals registered for the webinar and a recording of the session is available for on-demand viewing at WebinarWednesday.live.
Attendees provided valuable feedback via a survey that included the prompt, “Give us 3 words to describe today’s webinar.”
“Insightful new technology,” Biomedical Engineer V. Mendoza said.
“Informative, interesting, thought-provoking,” M. Mortensen, CBET, said.
“Interesting, new technology, forward-thinking,” Clinical Engineering Director K. Hoellein said.
For more information, visit WebinarWednesday.live.