Adrian Jennings, chief product officer of Cognosos, says that traditional real-time location services (RTLS) fail their clients. Either the services are so expensive that they’re not deployed widely enough, or they’re cheap but inaccurate. For instance, they might indicate that something is in the right room when it’s actually in a hallway in back.
Cognosos takes a different approach. There’s no need for a nurse to consult a device and ask where they can find a wheelchair or suction pump. “The goal is to blend into the background—everything just works.”
Instead of locating lost items, in short, RTLS should leverage all of the data generated to make sure that each room has what it needs, at all times. This requires monitoring the hospital’s actual use of devices instead of relying on anecdotal reports. According to Jennings, hospitals usually have twice as much as they need of each piece of equipment.
So Cognosos uses AI and data analytics to reveal what’s needed, along with differing needs at different times of the day or year. They seek to create a “self-considering hospital.”
Watch this extended interview to learn who equipment gets stolen, lost, or hoarded, effects on the pipeline of patients through the system, the importance of trust, the technology behind Cognosos’ RTLS solution, how to decide what equipment to protect first, and more.
Learn more about Cognosos: https://cognosos.com/
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