CBAHI Focus Areas and Smart Solutions for Saudi Healthcare Excellence

Under the rigorous monitoring of the Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutes (CBAHI), Saudi Arabia is transforming healthcare standards across all medical institutions. This evolution ensures alignment with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, driving unprecedented quality improvements in patient care and facility management.

In this article, we explore key CBAHI accreditation standards and demonstrate how Penguin’s innovative technology solutions help healthcare facilities not only achieve compliance but excel in service quality and operational efficiency.

 

Executive Leadership: Technology-Driven Decision Making

Key Performance Indicators for Healthcare Executives

CBAHI has identified critical focus areas for executive leadership:

• Supply Chain Excellence: Ensuring seamless provision of medicines, equipment, and medical supplies throughout the facility
• Quality Collaboration: Working across all departments to elevate care standards and operational protocols
• Facility Infrastructure: Continuous monitoring and evaluation of building conditions and maintenance needs
• Resource Optimization: Minimizing waste of valuable medical resources and supplies

The Power of Real-Time Data

Modern technology empowers executives through automated monitoring and intelligent reporting across all facility operations. Access to real-time data enables faster, more informed decision-making on critical metrics including:

• Asset utilization rates
• Staff attendance compliance
• Facility maintenance schedules
• Practitioner response times

Penguin’s comprehensive platform provides executives with the tools needed to build ROI-driven strategies based on actionable insights and accurate data.

Infection Control: Revolutionizing Hand Hygiene Compliance

CBAHI’s Enhanced Requirements

The ESR CBAHI standards place renewed emphasis on infection prevention through stringent hand hygiene protocols:

• Governance Structure: Establishment of a multidisciplinary committee providing oversight of infection prevention and control programs
• Standardized Procedures: Implementation of comprehensive sterilization, disinfection, and hand cleaning compliance protocols
• Resource Management: Proper use and adequate provision of infection prevention equipment and supplies

Beyond Compliance: Measurable Hand Hygiene

Hand hygiene has rightfully become the cornerstone of any effective infection control program. As Dr. Mohammed Smadi, CEO of Penguin, notes:

“A key use case that has tangible ROI is hand hygiene compliance. Being able to know who went where and when are keys to ensuring that compliance rules are adhered to.”

Dr Mohammed Smadi, CEO of Penguin.

Smart Solutions for Existing Infrastructure

Through dedicated research and strategic partnerships, Penguin has developed cost-effective retrofit solutions that upgrade existing dispensers with advanced compliance tracking capabilities. Benefits include:

• Individual and ward-level compliance monitoring
• Automated dispenser replenishment workflows
• Real-time utilization tracking and reporting
• Seamless integration with existing infrastructure

Patient Experience and Safety: A Technology-Enhanced Approach

The Foundation of Patient-Centric Care

Patient centricity stands as a fundamental pillar of CBAHI accreditation, with safety and experience as primary drivers. CBAHI standards emphasize:

• Verification Protocols: Processes to prevent wrong patient, wrong site, and wrong procedure incidents
• Identity Assurance: Systems ensuring correct patient identification at all touchpoints

Real-Time Tracking for Enhanced Safety

Penguin’s intelligent tracking solutions add crucial layers of compliance and traceability, significantly reducing unintentional errors. Our platform enables:

• Real-time patient and staff location tracking
• Schedule adherence monitoring
• Physical area access verification
• Complete audit trails for historical review and analysis

Digital Wayfinding: Reducing Errors and Improving Experience

To minimize medical errors, ESR CBAHI mandates clear navigation systems including accessible wayfinding for authorized staff and prominent information points at facility entrances.

Penguin’s Digital Wayfinding Solution offers:

• Customizable multilingual directory listings
• Easy content updates and modifications
• Targeted infotainment messaging for patients and departments
• Significant reduction in missed appointments
• Integration with patient reminder systems
• Measurably improved patient satisfaction scores

Medical Asset Management: Complete Supply Chain Visibility

CBAHI’s Comprehensive Asset Requirements

Healthcare facility management must ensure:

• Timely provision of all medical supplies
• Storage according to manufacturer specifications and optimal conditions
• Regular inspection procedures and quality checks
• Protection of supplies from theft, damage, or unauthorized access
• Proper disposal of damaged and expired materials
• Systematic reduction of resource waste

PenTrack: Intelligent Asset Intelligence

Effective medical asset tracking and management are essential for patient safety, cost reduction, regulatory compliance, and enhanced care quality. Penguin’s “PenTrack” family of products delivers:

• • Precision Location: Pin-point asset positioning throughout your facility
  • Proximity Awareness: Real-time tracking of equipment and supplies
  • AI-Powered Analytics: Advanced indoor analytics with intelligent data interpretation
  • Business Rules Engine: Automated actions triggered by specific conditions
  • Proactive Alerts: Instant notifications for critical asset events

Dental Clinic Standards: Specialized Safety Solutions

Critical Requirements for Dental Facilities

CBAHI dental clinic standards mandate:

• Active staff health and safety programs
• Immediate and consistent sanitation for healthcare providers and equipment

Comprehensive Protection Solutions

Penguin’s specialized solutions address these requirements with:

• • Duress Call Systems: Immediate emergency response for medical staff safety and security
  • Equipment Tracking: Real-time monitoring of dental instruments and machinery
  • Easy Deployment: Utilization of existing Wi-Fi infrastructure or simple on-premises BLE/Bluetooth solutions
  • Top-Rated Performance: Proven implementation success across multiple facilities

Operational Readiness: Advanced Tracking Systems

Critical Monitoring Capabilities

Modern healthcare facilities require sophisticated tracking systems for:

• Neonatal Security: Protection against infant abduction with real-time monitoring
• Sterilization Verification: Complete tracking of medical equipment sterilization cycles
• Nurse Safety and Efficiency: Support for nurse calling systems and staff security protocols
• Equipment Management: Monitoring dwell times in dirty and clean utility rooms
• Maintenance Scheduling: Facility manager tools for tracking and scheduling preventive maintenance

Penguin’s Commitment to Healthcare Excellence

These are transformative times for healthcare technology. Penguin is proud to partner with healthcare providers throughout Saudi Arabia, delivering innovative solutions that address today’s most pressing challenges while preparing facilities for tomorrow’s opportunities.

 

About Penguin Location Services

Penguin is a leading indoor positioning and IoT solutions provider, headquartered in Irvine, California, with a regional office in Dubai. The company creates digital parallels for physical spaces, optimizing day-to-day processes and creating unique experiences for visitors and operators.

Penguin leverages all available radio and sensor information to provide state-of-the-art indoor positioning technology that builds ROI-driven use cases. Our solutions have proven successful in some of the world’s most challenging and demanding healthcare environments.

About CBAHI

The Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions (CBAHI) is the official agency authorized to grant accreditation certificates to all governmental and private healthcare facilities operating in Saudi Arabia.

Established by the Saudi Health Council as a non-profit organization, CBAHI’s Essential Safety Requirements (ESR) set the healthcare quality and patient safety standards against which all healthcare facilities are evaluated for compliance evidence.

References

1. QM.18, ESR Book, National Essential Safety Requirements by CBAHI
2. QM.17, ESR Book, National Essential Safety Requirements by CBAHI
3. IPC.4, ESR Book, National Essential Safety Requirements by CBAHI
4. CBAHI Official Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/Cbahi_SA

 

 

CBAHI – A Saudi Approach to Improved Healthcare Through Smart Technology

Saudi Arabia is transforming its healthcare sector through privatization. Moreover, this transformation occurs under tight monitoring by the Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutes (CBAHI).

CBAHI aims to improve the patient, staff and visitor safety, service level and experience offered by all accredited institutes in the Kingdom. Additionally, it mandates the availability of tools to report errors during the service offering process.

Penguin’s CBAHI Compliance Solutions

Penguin has been refining its solutions to offer healthcare facilities tools that help satisfy such CBAHI accreditation requirements. Our solutions address key areas:

Preventing and Reporting Medical Errors and Improving Safety:

• Ensuring that surgery is always done at the right place
• Moreover, giving a newborn to the correct parents
• Newborn safety using electronic tagging immediately from birth
• Furthermore, ensuring compliance with infection control standards

Improving Patient Experience:

• Offering external and internal wayfinding signage to assist in navigation
• Additionally, this includes a navigate from home to clinic feature
• Clear access and egress wayfinding for authorized hospital staff
• Furthermore, availability of wayfinding boards and enquiry points at entrances

Enhancing Operational Readiness:

• Neonatal tracking system to protect against abduction
• Moreover, tracking the sterilization of medical equipment
• Nurse tracking to support nurse calling systems and nurse safety
• Additionally, equipment dwell times in dirty and clean rooms
• Furthermore, system to support facility managers in tracking and scheduling maintenance for medical equipment

Supporting CBAHI Standards in Saudi Healthcare

These are interesting times. Moreover, Penguin is proud to be working with healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia to address these CBAHI compliance challenges.

To learn more about how Penguin can help your facility meet CBAHI accreditation standards, please send us an email to [email protected]

 

A nurse working a night shift in an emergency department cannot call for help the same way someone in an office can. She cannot shout without alarming a volatile patient. She cannot reach a wall phone if she is cornered. She cannot press a fixed panic button if the incident happens in a corridor, a patient room, or a stairwell.

This is the nurse duress problem, and it is not a minor gap. According to the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, over 61% of nurses in Canada report experiencing physical violence on the job. The Bureau of Labor Statistics documents that healthcare workers in the US face workplace violence at rates higher than any other sector. Government authorities have responded with legislation, Bill 168 in Ontario, OSHA healthcare guidelines in the US, but legislation alone does not protect a nurse in room 412 at 2 AM.

The technology that closes this gap is a wearable nurse duress system powered by real-time location, a badge the nurse wears at all times, everywhere she goes, that sends security her exact room location the moment she presses a button.

Workplace violence against nurses is not random, it clusters in predictable settings, at predictable times, with predictable patient profiles. Emergency departments, psychiatric units, and long-term care floors carry the highest risk. Night shifts and shift changes create supervision gaps. Patients in acute crisis, under involuntary holds, or experiencing cognitive impairment create elevated incident risk that clinical staff recognize but cannot always anticipate in time.

Traditional protection methods have well-documented limitations. Overhead Code White announcements broadcast that help is coming, which can escalate a volatile situation before responders arrive. Fixed wall-mounted panic stations only protect nurses who are close enough to reach them, which in a physical confrontation is rarely the case. Radio or phone calls require the nurse to speak, which is not always possible and reveals the call for help to the person causing the threat.

What nurses need is a silent, immediate, location-specific way to summon help from wherever they are, without making any visible signal that help is coming. This is what a wearable RTLS nurse duress system delivers. For a full comparison of duress system types and how they have evolved, see our guide on how hospital staff duress technology has evolved.

A wearable nurse duress system uses BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) technology to combine continuous location tracking with instant alert capability. Here is how the end-to-end process works in a live hospital environment:

Step 1, The nurse wears a BLE badge

Each nurse receives a small, lightweight badge that clips to a lanyard or ID holder. The badge broadcasts a continuous location signal and has a single panic button, firm enough to prevent accidental activation, accessible enough to press quickly under stress without looking at it.

Step 2, The facility tracks location continuously

BLE readers installed throughout the hospital receive signals from every active badge and report location data to the RTLS platform in real time. The system maintains a live map showing every nurse’s current room-level location, updated continuously as they move through the facility.

Step 3, The nurse presses the badge button

When a nurse feels threatened, she presses the button. The alert fires silently through the software platform. No overhead announcement. No visible sign that help has been called. No escalation of the situation before responders arrive.

Step 4, Security receives the alert immediately

Within seconds, security personnel and supervisors receive a push notification on their mobile device or workstation showing the nurse’s name, department, and exact room-level location, updated in real time if she moves. Responders walk directly to the correct room rather than searching the unit.

Step 5, Escalation fires automatically if unacknowledged

If the initial alert is not acknowledged within a configurable window, the system automatically escalates to the next responder in the chain, charge nurse, security supervisor, emergency coordinator. This continues until someone takes ownership of the response.

Step 6, The system logs the event automatically

Every alert, acknowledgment, response time, and location event is timestamped and stored automatically. This creates the compliance documentation that Bill 168, OSHA, and accreditation bodies require, without any manual entry from nursing staff.

The most important distinction in nurse safety technology is between systems that move with the nurse and systems that do not.

The difference between a fixed panic button and a wearable nurse duress badge is not a matter of degree, it is a matter of whether the system actually works during a real incident. In a physical confrontation, the nurse is almost never standing next to a wall station.

Emergency Departments

Emergency departments carry the highest documented rate of workplace violence in hospital settings. Long wait times, high patient acuity, substance intoxication, and the presence of patients under psychiatric holds create an environment where aggressive incidents are not rare exceptions, they are a regular operational reality. Research published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine found that more than 80% of emergency nurses have experienced verbal or physical violence during their careers.

Inpatient Psychiatric and Behavioral Health Units

Psychiatric units present a different risk profile, patients may have full cognitive capacity but be in acute crisis, experiencing psychosis, or in withdrawal states that produce unpredictable behavior. The population of patients under involuntary holds is particularly high-risk. One-to-one supervision is often inadequate for covering all patients simultaneously, making wearable alerting essential for staff who are working with individual patients.

Long-Term Care and Memory Care Floors

Patients with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease can become agitated and physically aggressive in ways that are difficult to predict and impossible to reason with. Staff on these units work in environments where patients may not recognize them as caregivers, and where sundowning creates a predictable elevated-risk window in the late afternoon and evening.

Night Shifts and Reduced Staffing Periods

Incidents during night shifts are disproportionately severe because response times are longer when fewer staff are on the floor. A nurse working with reduced overnight staffing needs a duress system that compensates for the supervision gaps that night shift creates, not a system that depends on someone nearby hearing a call for help.

Nurse duress systems sit at the intersection of workplace safety legislation and healthcare accreditation requirements, both of which are tightening their expectations around what constitutes an adequate protection program.

In Ontario, Bill 168 requires employers to provide workers with an immediate means of summoning assistance when violence occurs or is likely to occur. Ministry of Labour inspectors have increasingly questioned whether fixed wall-mounted stations meet this requirement for nurses working in high-risk clinical environments. Wearable RTLS duress systems are now widely regarded as the appropriate standard.

BC WorkSafe regulations and Alberta OHS legislation carry equivalent requirements. In the US, OSHA’s healthcare workplace violence guidelines establish parallel expectations for hospital employers.

The Joint Commission requires hospitals to implement proactive workplace violence prevention programs and demonstrate measurable response capability. RTLS nurse duress systems generate the timestamped incident logs and response time data that satisfy these documentation requirements automatically, without additional administrative burden on clinical staff.

When evaluating nurse duress systems, the specification sheet is the starting point, not the ending point. These are the questions that separate systems that work in a real hospital from systems that work in a vendor demonstration:

Does the badge move with the nurse everywhere? Confirm that the system provides continuous location tracking throughout the facility, not just in areas with specific hardware installed.

What is the room-level accuracy rate in a live hospital environment? Ask for accuracy data from a deployed facility, not from a controlled test environment. The RF conditions in a real hospital are meaningfully different from an empty room.

How does the system handle wall proximity? A nurse standing near a shared wall between two patient rooms should be placed in the correct room. Ask specifically how the system resolves this edge case.

Is the badge rechargeable? Disposable battery systems create an ongoing maintenance program and a predictable failure mode, a dead battery that gives no warning. Rechargeable badges eliminate both.

Does the alert route to the right person with actionable information? An alert that goes to a generic nursing station inbox is not the same as a push notification to the security officer’s mobile device showing the nurse’s name, photo, and room number.

What does the post-deployment support model look like? The first 90 days of operation are when alert threshold configuration, escalation logic, and workflow integration need the most adjustment. Ask specifically who is responsible for your account during this period.

For a detailed buyer’s guide covering all staff duress system types, see our complete guide on staff duress systems for Canadian hospitals.

What is a nurse duress system?

A nurse duress system is a wearable safety device that allows nurses and other healthcare workers to silently trigger an emergency alert from anywhere in the facility. When the badge button is pressed, the system immediately notifies security and supervisors with the nurse’s name and exact room-level location, giving responders the information they need to reach the correct location within seconds. Unlike overhead Code White announcements, the alert is silent and does not escalate the situation before help arrives.

How is a nurse duress badge different from a fixed panic button?

A fixed panic button requires the nurse to be physically near a wall-mounted station to activate it. In most violent incidents, the nurse is not near a wall, she is in a patient room, a corridor, or a confined space. A wearable RTLS nurse duress badge moves with the nurse at all times. When she presses the button, the system knows her exact current location because it has been tracking her continuously. The response is faster, more targeted, and location-specific regardless of where in the facility the incident occurs.

Can a nurse activate the duress alert without the patient noticing?

Yes, and discreet activation is a core design requirement. The button activates silently with a single press. There is no audible alarm, no visible light, and no overhead announcement. The alert fires directly to security devices without any outward sign that help has been called. This is essential in volatile situations where alerting the patient that security is coming could escalate the incident before responders arrive.

What information does security receive when a nurse duress alert fires?

Security personnel receive a push notification on their mobile device or workstation showing the nurse’s name, department, current room-level location, and in some implementations her photo. The location updates in real time if she moves while the event is active. This gives responders everything they need to walk directly to the correct room rather than searching the unit.

Does a nurse duress system help with regulatory compliance?

Yes. RTLS nurse duress systems automatically log every alert, acknowledgment, response time, and location event with a timestamp. This creates the incident documentation that Bill 168, OSHA healthcare violence guidelines, and Joint Commission standards require, without any manual data entry from nursing staff. When a regulator or accreditor requests evidence of an active workplace violence prevention program, the system produces a complete, accurate audit trail immediately.

Can the same RTLS infrastructure support nurse duress and other hospital applications?

Yes. The BLE sensor network deployed for nurse duress alerting is the same infrastructure that supports asset tracking, patient elopement prevention, hand hygiene compliance monitoring, and indoor navigation. Penguin’s platform is designed around this consolidated model, one sensor network serving multiple safety and efficiency applications. A hospital that deploys RTLS for nurse duress has already built the foundation for all of these additional use cases without requiring separate hardware.

Penguin Location Services delivers nurse duress alerting through PenSafe, wearable BLE 5.1 badges, real-time room-level location, silent activation, and automatic escalation on a single integrated platform. To discuss how PenSafe works in your specific facility, visit penguinin.com/contact.

Why & How do Patients Choose a hospital?

Here’s a question for you: can you influence the patients’ choice of which hospital they attend to?

With the easily accessible medical and facility information online, patients are now more educated and informed about their choices and decisions. A 2017 UK study [1] has shown that convenient location continued to be a major influencing factor over hospital choice; however, other – perhaps less obvious – factors such as the number of beds and even parking spots are being viewed as a proxy for the level of service a hospital is likely to provide.

Information availability and patient freedom over healthcare provider choice drive private and public sectors to deliver a better overall patient experience. Albeit exciting from a patient perspective, it is challenging for operators to (1) identify areas of improvement which are rapidly and continuously evolving and (2) innovative and cost-effective ways to address these areas.

Creating key performance indicators (KPIs) for metrics that impact patient satisfaction and the corresponding tools to measure these KPIs should be a collaborative effort between the different departments. For example, IT managers who historically were responsible for the network and PC upkeep in hospitals, are now being asked to look after mobile applications and infrastructure specifically used to improve the patient experience.

In a 2018 survey [2] covering 1,000 healthcare consumers, it was found that the difficulty in finding one’s way around the hospital was worse of a challenge than poor communications from the doctor.  A solution addressing wayfinding within a hospital can span facility, IT, and patient experience departments.

In a Harvard Business Review article [3], it was shown that even though the average charge for an outpatient emergency room trip was $1,900 in 2016 (twice the average monthly rent for Americans), Patients who arrived at EDs with broken bones waited a painful 54 minutes, on average, before receiving any pain medication! The authors argue that hospitals’ waiting times should be measured and benchmarked against the national average waiting time. Hospitals that exhibit shorter waiting times than the average should be financially rewarded, while underperforming hospitals should be penalized. Such an initiative would involve finance, staff, legal, and patient advocacy teams.

It is our opinion that factors impacting the choice of healthcare provider are evolving in the digital era. Identifying and measuring KPIs is a cross-functional team effort with the ultimate objective of improving the overall patient experience and outcome.

PenguinIN is a healthcare digital transformation solution provider with patient experience solutions including PenNav: a best-in-class indoor wayfinding solution and PenTrack: a solution for asset and people tracking. Through analytics and business rules, PenguinIN works with facility managers, IT managers and patient experience directors to identify and resolve pain points in healthcare settings.

To learn more about what can help you achieve a better patient experience, or to share more thoughts, please reach out to us at [email protected]

 

[1] Patient choice modelling: how do patients choose their hospitals?  Available on: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28401405/

[2] 2018 Hospital Patient Survey Conducted by Scorpion.Co. Available on: https://www.scorpion.co/hospitals/expert-tips/intelligence/hospital-patient-survey-how-do-patients-choose-t/

[3] Harvard Business Review: To Reduce Emergency Room Wait Times, Tie Them to Payments by Nicos Savva and Tolga Tezcan. Available on: https://hbr.org/2019/02/to-reduce-emergency-room-wait-times-tie-them-to-payments

 

COVID-19 Home Quarantine Compliance: Advanced Indoor Positioning Technology for Pandemic Response

The COVID-19 pandemic took the world by surprise. As a result, many governments found themselves poorly equipped to deal with this dynamic global public health emergency. Although home-based quarantine is a cost-effective containment strategy and infection control measure when applied correctly, a key limitation remains: compliance monitoring and effective quarantine enforcement for pandemic containment.

Penguin Location Services Home Quarantine Solution: Indoor Positioning Innovation

At Penguin Location Services, we applied our patent-pending indoor positioning technology to build a complete home quarantine compliance solution. Furthermore, our innovative indoor positioning system addresses the critical need for reliable quarantine monitoring during the coronavirus pandemic.

How Our Indoor Positioning Quarantine Monitoring System Works

Our quarantine compliance solution uses advanced indoor positioning technology through a special bracelet paired to an app on the patient’s mobile phone. Moreover, this indoor positioning system ensures that the patient stays inside the quarantine area for the entire quarantine time.

Technology Provides:

• Real-time indoor positioning for quarantined people
• Automated compliance tracking throughout the quarantine period using indoor positioning sensors
• Additionally, seamless integration with existing healthcare monitoring systems
• Cost-effective option to facility-based quarantine powered by indoor positioning infrastructure

Key Features of Our COVID-19 Indoor Positioning Quarantine Technology

Modular and Flexible Indoor Positioning Setup

“It is highly modular and can be adopted in bits and pieces to fit the needs of the client,” said Raed Nayfeh, Penguin Location Services’ Regional Sales Manager. “Furthermore, we have already been working with some of the regional governments and are very excited to be part of large-scale rollouts today.”

Advanced Indoor Positioning Detection Abilities

“Key features of our solution are the detection – in real-time – of the bracelet status (worn vs. taken-off), secure indoor positioning location tracking, automated rule-breaking detection, and seamless onboarding,” said Mai Aqel, Product Manager at Penguin Location Services.

Complete Quarantine Compliance Reporting Through Indoor Positioning

The reporting tool offers a compliance score showing the level of compliance of quarantined people to COVID-19 rules. In addition, this indoor positioning-based compliance score guides healthcare teams in the field by offering:

• Real-time compliance monitoring for quarantined patients via indoor positioning data
• Automated alerts for possible quarantine breaks detected through indoor positioning sensors
• Moreover, complete analytics for public health decision-making based on indoor positioning insights
• Streamlined workflow handling for healthcare managers

Benefits for Government and Healthcare Organizations

Cost-Effective Pandemic Response with Indoor Positioning

• Reduces need for facility-based quarantine centers through accurate indoor positioning
• Furthermore, enables large-scale quarantine monitoring with minimal resources using indoor positioning infrastructure
• Supports government pandemic response plans with reliable indoor positioning technology

Better Public Health Safety Through Indoor Positioning

• Real-time monitoring ensures quarantine compliance via continuous indoor positioning tracking
• Additionally, automated detection prevents possible community spread using indoor positioning alerts
• Complete reporting supports contact tracing efforts with indoor positioning data analytics

Scalable Indoor Positioning Setup

• Modular indoor positioning design allows for phased rollout
• Also, adaptable indoor positioning solution for different government needs and rules
• Suitable for large-scale population monitoring during pandemics through scalable indoor positioning networks

Proven Indoor Positioning Technology for COVID-19 Response

Penguin Location Services’ indoor positioning technology has been successfully rolled out working with regional governments. Consequently, this demonstrates our ability to support large-scale pandemic response efforts. Our indoor positioning-powered quarantine compliance solution represents a critical tool in the fight against COVID-19 community spread.

Contact Penguin Location Services for Indoor Positioning Quarantine Solutions

To learn more about our COVID-19 quarantine compliance technology powered by advanced indoor positioning and how it can support your organization’s pandemic response efforts, please contact us today. Alternatively, share your needs with our team.

Our indoor positioning-based home quarantine monitoring solution provides the reliability, scalability, and compliance tracking that governments and healthcare organizations need during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

**Transform your pandemic response with cutting-edge indoor positioning technology from Penguin Location Services.

COVID-19 Healthcare Response: RTLS Solutions for Contact Tracing and Hand Hygiene Monitoring

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). In the absence of a vaccine or specific antiviral treatment, maintaining good hand hygiene and limiting contact with other people continue to be the most recommended course of action to be taken by the general public.

Penguin Location Services RTLS: Essential Tools for COVID-19 Response

Penguin Location Services real-time location system (RTLS) provides valuable tools to ensure comprehensive pandemic response capabilities for healthcare facilities and organizations. Our advanced RTLS technology delivers:

COVID-19 Contact Tracing Solutions

• Contact traceability between patients, visitors, staff and medical equipment
• Automated contact tracing documentation for infection control protocols
• Real-time tracking capabilities essential for pandemic response

Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring

• Hand hygiene compliance monitoring systems integrated with RTLS technology
• Automated tracking to ensure adherence to WHO-recommended hygiene protocols
• Real-time compliance data to support infection prevention measures during COVID-19

Healthcare Asset and People Tracking

• Comprehensive tracking of assets and people throughout healthcare facilities
• Visitor management systems for enhanced safety during pandemic conditions
• Real-time location monitoring for patients, staff, and essential medical equipment

Wi-Fi Infrastructure Integration for Healthcare RTLS

Penguin Location Services can integrate with existing Wi-Fi infrastructure including:

• Cisco wireless networks
• Meraki systems
• Ruckus wireless infrastructure
• MIST AI-driven networks

This integration capability provides a form of traceability and visibility which otherwise may not be available to healthcare facilities responding to COVID-19 challenges.

Why RTLS is Critical During COVID-19

During the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare facilities need immediate access to:

• Real-time contact tracing capabilities for rapid outbreak response
• Automated hand hygiene monitoring to ensure compliance with safety protocols
• Comprehensive asset tracking to optimize resource allocation during critical shortages
• Visitor management systems to control facility access and maintain safety

Supporting Healthcare Heroes During COVID-19

Penguin Location Services’ healthcare RTLS solutions provide the essential tools that healthcare workers need to maintain safety protocols while delivering critical care during the pandemic. Our technology enables healthcare facilities to:

• Respond quickly to potential COVID-19 exposures through automated contact tracing
• Maintain rigorous hand hygiene standards with real-time monitoring
• Optimize workflow efficiency during high-demand periods
• Ensure comprehensive visibility into facility operations

Penguin Location Services wishes everyone the best. Stay safe!