Columna Flow Search & Find
A real-time tracking solution that enables you to fast and easily locate equipment.
Columna Flow Search & Find makes it easy for you to track and find the equipment or colleagues you are looking for. The solution provides you with a real-time overview of where an asset is located, which frees up more time for patient care.
The solution is based on the latest location tracking technologies, which connect physical assets with digital locations via sensors.
Besides being able to easily track equipment, you’ll get:
- Tailored search overviews
- Automatically initiate workflows based on location and status changes of tracked objects.
- A mobile app to manage equipment.
- Live and historic data to track and trace equipment.
Free up time for care-taking activities
Quickly locate equipment and spend more time with patients.
Enhance equipment availability
Boost clinical availability of equipment with overviews and timely notifications.
Provide real-time status and overview
Get an overview of what’s ready for use and what needs servicing.
Empower staff with an easy way to look up and share equipment status
Columna Flow Search & Find is developed to support you as a caregiver in the best way possible, regardless of your needs. The solution provides mobile applications that enable you to search for a specific object, search category-based, or use tailored overviews that display the needed equipment and its locations.
The solution also enables you to scan equipment QR and barcodes, which makes it convenient to look up the equipment status, change the status, or create equipment-related tasks, such as transport tasks.
Get a quick overview of equipment status
The solution offers an overview of relevant equipment, clearly marked based on availability, repair, cleaning, or maintenance status.
You can either manually update the status of an asset in the system, do it automatically by a third-party solution, or by configured triggers.
Free up time for patients and reduce stress
Quickly locating the required equipment frees up valuable time for care-taking activities. An organised overview of equipment eliminates the need to ask colleagues for assistance, thereby minimising unnecessary interruptions.
The solution prevents wasted time and steps spent searching for equipment, reducing stress and cognitive load among staff.
Streamline and automate workflows
Search & Find automates workflows using simple business rules that trigger actions based on equipment status and location changes, such as stock-level or geofence conditions. These workflows can initiate tasks within Columna Flow Task Management.
This can help you minimise maintenance costs and ensure wards and depots are properly stocked while preventing hoarding and overstocking. Additionally, it can ensure that relevant tasks are created, when an object moves from A to B.
The automated workflows can also ensure preventive maintenance is done promptly by automatically creating actions when the equipment changes status. This transforms equipment from being frequently unavailable, due to disorganised maintenance and cleaning, into a readily accessible resource for clinicians.
With improved tools for managing stock levels, scheduling maintenance, and identifying required equipment, you can ensure optimal functionality and availability of essential equipment. Ultimately, this leads to substantial cost savings by reducing the need to purchase additional equipment.
Make better decisions based on data
With Search & Find, you can track how your equipment is used, helping you avoid over-purchasing and redundant rentals. This enables you to make the best possible use of equipment and save costs.
When you analyse equipment flow and logistics, you can identify and eliminate bottlenecks to enhance overall hospital efficiency.
Historical data aids you in precise budgeting, resource allocation, and supply chain management, ensuring optimal performance and resource utilisation.
Columna Flow Search & Find is a component of the Columna Flow suite, designed to streamline and automate hospital workflows and ensure optimal and efficient patient care. By tracking equipment and providing real-time data in hand when needed, it is possible to improve and incorporate equipment into the current workflows, including task creation in Columna Flow Task Management.
Would you like to learn more about Search & Find and see results from other hospitals?
Contact Jacob Gade, Senior Consultant at Systematic. With 20 years of experience optimising workflows, Jacob is ready to discuss how Search & Find can help you optimise equipment workflows at your hospital.
Email: [email protected]
