How Can The Healthcare Industry Use Asset Tracking Software?

Fundamentally, asset tracking software is the best way to ensure that healthcare assets are maintained well and fit for purpose, while also ensuring accountability and a visible audit trail.

Asset tracking software has many other benefits, too, including cost and time savings. This means more budget and more time to improve welfare and focus on other critical, daily challenges.

This is as asset tracking software works by allowing you to create unique asset profiles for your equipment, similar to social media accounts. Each of your assets will get a profile with space to record what its status is, where it is and who has been using it.

Therefore, if you’re tracking PPE, you can log who it belongs to and when it was last used. If you’re tracking critical kit, you can add preventative maintenance reminders and show where it was last logged in, for example, a hospital.

The possibilities are endless, which means you can have a clear, robust healthcare asset register of everything you own.

Fixed asset management, however, gives you more cost benefits and ensures operational risks are mitigated. With a clear fixed asset register, for example, it’s much more difficult to purchase duplicates.

Then, ghost and zombie assets are also avoided. Ghost and zombie assets can create difficulties in sourcing equipment and can create tax and insurance risks, too, so they can be costly.

Overall, fixed healthcare asset management solutions reduce accounting risks and errors, which means better financial health, but also fewer operational mishaps.

How does this all work? It takes the concept of unique assets to the next level. 

As all of your assets are unique, you can tag them with unique QR codes, barcodes, and RFID tags. When you use QR code or barcode asset tags, you can run audits and discover assets just by using your phone’s camera.

Every time you scan an asset’s tag, that asset’s profile will open and its last seen location will update. Therefore, if you spot an issue, you can simply scan the tag and report it.

RFID automates this. With RFID, you can scan tags from a distance using RFID readers. Therefore, you can audit a room and detect the assets within from outside so as to not disturb patients. You can also bulk scan assets, saving you time.

Fixed RFID is the next level up. This allows you to affix readers on choke points. Then, whenever a tag passes through the readers’ field, the location will update automatically to log that an asset has just entered a certain location.

In a high-pressure environment, the fewer decisions you need to make the better. With fixed RFID asset tracking and with conventional asset management, a lot of your operations are automated and more transparent, making it easier to know what you need to maintain and where.

Overall, healthcare asset tracking software gives you more control over your assets in an environment where this is critical.

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