Tracking system provides overview and fewer interruptions

Aarhus University Hospital is implementing a new tracking system. The employees at the hospital can look forward to even better overviews and less interruptions, DR News writes.

What the media said22 June 2017

The white name tags that the employees at Aarhus University Hospital carry have gotten a brand new function with the implementation of a new tracking technology. A chip at the bottom of the name tag sends signals via censors in the ceiling to a screen in the guard room, which makes the employees able to get an overview of where their fellow doctors, nurses, and midwifes are located.

On the screen, the employees are able to see which colleagues are at work and in which room or operation theatre they are currently positioned. Thereby, a better overview is created and fewer interruptions take place - and this benefits the patients, IT project manager Lars Ganzhorn Knudsen explains. 

”When the employees have an overview of the situation, they make fewer mistakes. So we have great expectations to the system when it comes to patient safety,” Lars Ganzhorn Knudsen says to DR News (DR Nyhederne).

The department for Women Diseases and Births has been chosen as test department for the new project, which has been running for the past two weeks. The plan is for the tracking system, developed by Systematic, to be spread out to the entire hospital, which covers almost 500.000 square metres when the construction is completed in 2019.

Read the entire news story here (in Danish).