Healthcare

As a healthcare provider, you need to manage a lot of moving parts, including patients, providers, equipment, and ambulances. Location information lets you manage all of those more effectively by tracking patients at home and at work, providing a higher quality of care for a lower cost while reducing fraud, quickly finding and deploying doctors and providers, and tracking expensive equipment and drugs by receiving alerts when they leave a geo-fenced area.
 

Track Patients, Staff, and Equipment

With the population growing ever more mobile, how can you keep track of your patients and staff? Via their cell phones. A recent study by Experian Simmons shows that 9 in 10 adults own a cell phone and most carry it with them everywhere they go. This makes a cell phone’s location a valuable proxy for most people’s location.

At Locaid, we can find more of those phones than any other company. Because our technology uses network-based techniques to identify the location of a mobile phone, no user action or application download is required, and it works whether the phone is indoors or outdoors. It also works on both smartphones and feature phones.

How Location Technology Can Help You

1. Confirm staff check-ins. Use location technology to provide an electronic time-sheet and map of employee activities.
2. Increase safety of healthcare workers in remote locations. Track their movements from a central location to make sure they’re OK.
3. Reduce fraud. Despite the massive investments in hardware, software, network security and sophisticated analytics, fraud happens. With Locaid, fraud departments can access one of the most coveted pieces of data about patients: where they are likely to be at the time that care is provided.
4. Keep patients home longer. Tracking a patient’s health in his or her home is much less expensive and stressful than requiring them to enter care facilities.
5. Improve efficiency. Centrally deploying ambulances and staff based on their location can reduce redundancy, trips per vehicle, and distance traveled.
6. Eliminate theft. Once you install tracking devices on an object—including ambulances, diagnostic equipment, medication, and computers—you can track them. If you establish a geo-fence, a virtual perimeter around an actual location, you can even receive alerts when people or equipment leave a designated area, helping you to detect equipment and medication theft.