Hospital equipment management

Quick and easy equipment tracking, in real-time

Columna Flow Search & Find makes tracking and finding the equipment you are looking for quick and easy. The solution provides a real-time overview of asset location, freeing up more time for patient care.

Hear Vicky explain how hospital staff use Columna Flow Search & Find to track and locate medical equipment in real-time, ensuring fast access, better resource management, and 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 track equipment easily, you’ll get:

Tailored search overviews
A mobile app to manage equipment.
Live and historic data to track and trace equipment.
Automation to initiate workflows based on location and status changes of tracked objects.

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A simple overview of medical equipment

Search & Find promotes workflows and significantly improves the clinical availability of equipment, reducing time when equipment is not available and minimising maintenance costs.

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.
Stay updated with real-time insights
See what's ready for use and what requires servicing.

See how hospitals use Search & Find

Empower staff with an easy way to locate and manage hospital assets

Columna Flow Search & Find gives every staff group the view they need. Clinicians find the nearest available device in seconds. Porters see live stock levels across wards and depots. Medico-technical teams locate equipment due for service without walking the hospital. The same platform tracks beds, assistive devices, sterile goods, logistics items, and people, all from a mobile device or desktop screen, with live status showing availability, maintenance, and cleaning.

Streamline and automate workflows

Search & Find automates workflows using simple rules based on status, location, and stock levels. When a device enters a repair workshop, its status updates automatically. When a depot drops below a set threshold, a replenishment task is created. When maintenance is due, the right team is notified. The same logic applies across cleaning, transport, bed management, and logistics workflows. No manual tracking, no missed deadlines.

Make better decisions based on data

Track how your assets are actually used across wards, departments, and time periods. Identify over-utilised and under-utilised equipment, spot where reallocation could prevent unnecessary spending, and monitor environmental conditions across labs, pharmacies, and blood banks. From equipment utilisation to patient flow, give your teams the evidence they need for informed decisions.

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.

Try Search & Find with Tracklite: Bluetooth-enabled tracking

Start tracking hospital assets without a major infrastructure investment. Attach Bluetooth beacons to your equipment, use our software on existing smartphones, and get ward-level location accuracy from day one.

Tracklite gives you the fundamentals – find equipment, understand where assets move, and build the data foundation for future tracking decisions – with minimal hardware cost and long-lasting battery-powered beacons.

It's a practical first step. See what real-time visibility does for your hospital before scaling to more advanced tracking technologies.

Contact us to learn how you can start your tracking journey with a Bluetooth-enabled tracking solution.