Interoperability and integrations with Columna Flow

Clinicians often find themselves caught up in time-consuming and repetitive EMR responsibilities, such as checking the status of test results, finding local care team members, managing beds, and calling for service personnel. Many of these tasks can be easily done from a mobile device.

With an integration to your Clinical Information Systems, Columna Flow allows clinicians and care teams to:

• See the location of hospital staff on ward level and communicate with physicians, nurses, and porters
• See the location of patient beds, equipment, staff, and request relevant service tasks via an IoT Platform.
• Receive and choose new tasks on their mobile rather than receiving calls from a dispatcher or walking back empty-handed for a new task
• Order and track radiology appointments and transport via Radiology Information Systems (CRIS)
• Reduce sterile instrument turnaround time with T-Doc instrument tracking system for all clinical objects

Roughly half of bed calls require nursing care follow-ups, while the other non-clinical calls can be carried out by other support staff within the hospital.

The ability to answer, prioritize, and assign nurse call alarms from a mobile device unlocks a new level of efficiency within the hospital and reduces repeated and unnecessary trips to patient rooms.

With Columna Flow’s IOT Platform, clinicians and support staff can:

• Utilize Automated Guided Vehicles that send tasks to your support staff when specific locations are reached with their deliveries
• Integrate alarms and nurse calls with support staff and clinical staff. If a room needs cleaning after a patient stay, the room can be connected directly to the task management system to push a task to the nearest available staff
• Catering System from Matilda FoodTech from Swisslog

Combining building information and asset tracking via REST networks enables care staff and nurses to quickly find clinical equipment locations and reducing wasted time looking for missing equipment.

Administrative staff can manage the medical equipment lifecycle from their asset management systems but also connect the assets to hospital locations. When purchasing new goods via SAP, the user can select the internal organizations (represented with a GLN) and see the relevant local delivery locations for this organization. This allows for orders made in SAP to include a local delivery location with address and location information from the IoT Platform.

In the Western Norway Regional Health Authority, they have structured and standardized their location information across all hospital sites using the Columna IoT Platform as a master database for locations.

With Columna Flow’s integration to asset management systems, clinicians and care personnel can:

• Track and find beds, equipment, and objects across hospital locations in real-time
• Items location tracking supporting integration with your hospital’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) designs directly from Revit
• Combine equipment location with enterprise asset management and logistics - allowing purchasing new supplies and have a local delivery task for service staff

Identify and track the location of equipment in real time. Asset tracking enables you to locate and track objects for hospital and service operations and even automatically trigger messages or tasks for your clinical or support staff based on real-time locations.

Just search the system for the nearest available bed or equipment and avoid wasting time looking for objects that are missing or not returned to their storage space.