Columna Flow Search & Find

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.

Part of the Columna Flow Suite

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.