Putting the ‘Where’ in Patient Care: Why Location is Key to Addressing Care Quality and Healthcare Inefficiencies

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Putting the ‘Where’ in Patient Care: Why Location is Key to Addressing Care Quality and Healthcare Inefficiencies

Published by in News
October 16, 2024

By Mohammed Smadi, PhD

Every day, healthcare leaders are challenged to provide quality care while maintaining a positive balance sheet. This goal has been harder to achieve in recent years, despite advances in medical technology and patient safety.

For example, The New England Journal of Medicine reported that nearly a quarter of hospital admissions resulted in at least one adverse event in 2018 and 23% of those events were deemed to be preventable. Between 2023 and 2024, hospitals experienced a double-digit increase in non-labor expenses, according to Strata. As a result, 40% of American hospitals had been losing money from operations during that time, KaufmanHall found.

Real-time location services (RTLS) can address these issues and many others. While this technology has historically been overlooked due to its cost and limited accuracy, recent developments in AI and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) have made RTLS solutions more affordable and accessible.

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