Tweet me!Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS), a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc., announced that over five million emergency department patient visits have been supported by its clinical documentation and automatic patient and asset tracking systems at facilities throughout the United States. The company's Amelior suite of workflow automation solutions integrate clinical or workflow intelligence to improve patient safety and streamline patient flow. PCTS will be demonstrating its emergency department systems in booth #309 at the 14th annual ED Information Systems Symposium to be held in San Diego , California from Dec 7-9.
PCTS is a pioneering developer of tracking and documentation software which automatically integrate the real-time location of people and equipment saving busy departments from the administrative task of manual entering location information. The Amelior software suite is compatible with all real-time locating technologies including active-RFID, infrared, ultrasound, ultra-wideband, Wi-Fi and ZigBee technologies. These technologies use locating badges which communicate to sensors positioned throughout an emergency department and entrances to ancillary departments to passively capture location data.
The Amelior EDTracker software applies emergency department workflow rules to measure the location, movement and interactions between patients, staff and medical equipment to automatically notify caregivers the progress of each patient's care. Additional intelligence interprets the meaning of events and determines what to do next such as change a patient status, assign a task for the caregiver, or send a notification to a staff member. Operating as a centralized workflow communication and management portal, the web-based tracking software presents patient flow information through map and filtered status view screens and integrates on-demand as well dashboard reporting. The system is the most implemented RTLS-enabled patient tracking software in U.S. emergency departments.
Delaware-based Christiana Care Health System (Christiana Care) is one of PCTS' busiest automatic tracking customers. Together Christiana Care's two emergency departments treat approximately 155,000 patient visits each year. In 2004, Christiana Care implemented the Amelior EDTracker software from PCTS in the emergency department of Christiana Hospital . Early in 2006, Wilmington Hospital 's emergency department implemented the emergency department automatic tracking system.
"Amelior EDTracker has revolutionized the way we work in our very busy emergency departments. My staff absolutely loves the system - they can not imagine how they ever functioned without it. Without a doubt, implementing Amelior EDTracker was one of the most significant initiatives we have undertaken in our EDs," said Linda Laskowski-Jones MS RN, vice president of emergency, trauma and aeromedical services at Christiana Care.
"In addition to staff satisfaction, we have derived an objective return on investment (ROI) in terms of decreasing ED length of stay and patients who leave without treatment. We also have achieved gains in staff safety through encounter tracking and improved interdepartmental coordination of services and resources. The data from automatic tracking has led to highly effective performance improvement initiatives including supporting our Lean projects."
PCTS has applied its expertise with real-time locating technologies to its emergency department documentation system, Amelior ED. Developed as a modular system of integrated applications supporting patient care from arrival to disposition, Amelior ED was the first emergency department information system (EDIS) to provide automatic patient and asset tracking as an embedded module without requiring an interface to a third-party system. The Amelior ED system features extensive clinical intelligence for treatment plans and medications as well prompts for incomplete documentation. When deployed with automatic tracking, the system supports caregivers with clinical and workflow intelligence.
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