HATBORO, Pa., April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InfoLogix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: IFLG), a leading technology provider of enterprise
mobility solutions for the healthcare and commercial industries,
announced today it has successfully launched a customized
HealthTrax™ mobility solution for University Health System's
604-bed acute care hospital and 20 ambulatory clinics in
San Antonio, Texas.
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University Health System turned to InfoLogix to help identify
new ways to increase efficiencies, improve patient safety, and
decrease costs. For the first phase of the initiative, the hospital
engaged Delta Health, an InfoLogix company, to conduct a strategic
cost management assessment to carefully analyze its existing
clinical workflow, identify opportunities for improvement, and
define management action plans to achieve increased operating
effectiveness.
During phase two, University Health System worked with InfoLogix
to automate key aspects of its clinical operations. Specifically,
they sought to eliminate the need for medical staff from nursing
and pharmacy to manually capture sensitive temperature data for
refrigerated medications in both its inpatient and ambulatory
facilities. The hospital's traditional data collection process
relied exclusively upon hospital staff to record refrigerator
temperatures, as often as every hour, to ensure highly-fragile
medications were stored at safe temperatures. This cumbersome
process was not only subject to human error, but also minimized the
amount of quality time nurses and pharmacy staff could spend with
patients.
The need to manually record refrigerator temperatures also
presented a potential safety concern for ambulatory clinics which
weren't staffed 24-hours a day. These clinics did not have a
reliable system for monitoring temperatures throughout the night
nor did they have an adequate backup system to respond to sudden
power outages. In the event refrigerator temperatures
deviated from their optimal threshold, expensive medications would
have to be destroyed and replaced. To address these issues
and better comply with the highly-regulated storage requirements,
the hospital identified automating the temperature monitoring
process for its 172 cold storage refrigerators as a top priority.
In addition, as part of the hospital's ongoing focus on
increasing operational efficiencies, University Health System
wanted to decrease the amount of time its busy clinicians spent
tracking down transient medical assets such as infusion pumps for
patients. With more than seven hundred infusion pumps constantly
circulating throughout the hospital, the lack of real-time location
data proved to be a frustrating challenge for BioMed staff who
spent inordinate amounts of time tracking down the critical
supplies. The hospital also discovered that some clinicians
were requesting unnecessary purchases of additional infusion pumps
as colleagues sometimes "hoarded" the vital supplies they needed.
To help University Health System address these operational
challenges, InfoLogix designed a real-time, interactive, web-based
solution based on the hospital's unique technology and workflow
requirements. The HealthTrax mobility solution draws upon Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies, a powerful software
engine, and a robust wireless network to collect and analyze
real-time information, alleviating the need for clinicians to
manually perform tedious data-collection and tracking tasks.
Through a network of tiny RFID transmitter tags, HealthTrax
makes real-time information continuously available at the
enterprise-level.
"InfoLogix helped us achieve dramatic new operating efficiencies
which have improved employee morale and enabled us to provide
better care to our patients. By freeing our clinicians from the
tedious data-collection tasks they used to perform on a daily
basis, they're significantly more productive," noted Bill Phillips, vice president and CIO of
University Health System. "In addition, as a result of the
automated reports we can now generate from HealthTrax, our
administrators have valuable information at their fingertips which
can help them meet our rigorous regulatory requirements and make
better, more informed operational decisions."
"InfoLogix is uniquely positioned to help hospitals throughout
North America transform their
operations, with over 90 clinical practitioners on staff to help in
workflow process improvements. By combining technology and clinical
expertise, we bring a unique perspective to help hospitals address
their day-to-day challenges in this challenging healthcare
environment," says David Gulian,
president and CEO of InfoLogix. "Innovative mobile
technologies like our HealthTrax solution are a key ingredient in
improving hospital operations and decreasing healthcare delivery
costs, and we're pleased to have University Health System on our
growing list of satisfied customers."
To download a full case study of the InfoLogix / University
Health System implementation please visit
http://www.infologix.com/forms/form_inquiry.aspx?t=uhs-case-study.
About InfoLogix, Inc.
InfoLogix is a leading provider of enterprise mobility solutions
for the healthcare and commercial industries. InfoLogix uses the
industry's most advanced technologies to increase the efficiency,
accuracy, and transparency of complex business and clinical
processes. With 19 issued patents, InfoLogix provides mobile
managed solutions, on-demand software applications, mobile
infrastructure products, and strategic consulting services to over
2,000 clients in North America
including Kraft Foods, Merck and Company, General Electric, Kaiser
Permanente, MultiCare Health System and Stanford School of
Medicine. InfoLogix is a publicly-traded company (Nasdaq: IFLG).
For more information visit www.infologix.com
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