BBX VISIBLE IoT Platform enhances patient safety in a 500-bed hospital by providing real-time location tracking, loitering alerts, and emergency response through wearable panic buttons.
THE CHALLENGE
A 500-bed multi-specialty hospital needed to ensure its
patients’ safety. The hospital required a solution that meets the
following stipulations:
- Must provide alerts for patients loitering outside of the ward/
room
- Must report real-time location of a patient inside the hospital
and include a panic button for an emergency
- Requires wearable and fixable panic button device with location
alerts
- Must report real-time location of a patient inside the hospital
and include a panic button for an emergency
THE SOLUTION
The BBX VISIBLE IoT Platform solves all of the hospital’s
challenges:
- Acquires real-time data from wireless BLE-based ID card and
wearable panic button using gateways connected to BBX
VISIBLE
- BBX VISIBLE platform displays data in real-time on dashboards,
tracking movement and location of patients inside the hospital
- Determines if a patient is loitering outside the designated ward
or room and sends an alert to the nurses’ station
- Ensures patient safety and security inside the hospital with
remote monitoring from anywhere, anytime
RESULTS
The hospital personnel now have greater peace of mind about
patient safety. The BBX VISIBLE platform delivers the following:
- Intuitive and intelligent dashboard monitors the patient’s indoor
location in real-time
- Functions as a remote and wireless RTLS system
- Sends real-time alerts for accidental falldown or prolonged no
movement
- Sends loitering alerts for any patient moving out of the ward
or room
- Connects alerts to nurses’ stations
IMMEDIATE OUTCOMES
Before BBX VISIBLE was implemented, an average of one patient
per month loitered out of the ward, which is risky and dangerous
to the health and safety of the patient and detrimental to the
reputation of the hospital. With the new solution, loitering
incidents have been eliminated.
The patients have been instructed and trained to use the
wearable SOS button in case of any dizziness or discomfort. Post
implementation, there have been many such occasions where the
patients were given emergency care upon SOS alerts.
Accidental fall downs were detected and immediate action was
taken, saving valuable lives.
NEXT STEPS AND EXPECTED RESULTS
- Productivity management: Expected improvement of efficiency
by 23%
- Smart toilets: Improved experience. Decrease in people cost of
cleaning staff by at least 7% up to 11%
- Automated lighting: Decrease in energy costs by 10%
- Remote monitoring of diesel generator sets: Save fuel costs by
5% and decrease in maintenance costs by 15%
- Remote monitoring of critical patients: Save people costs by 20%
improved monitoring and critical care
- Remote monitoring of caregivers: Save people costs by 5%,
improving compliance