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AeroScout Launches Cost-Effective Wireless Temperature
Monitoring Solution for Healthcare
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AeroScout, Inc.
April 3, 2008
Complete Wi-Fi Solution Automates Refrigerator and Freezer
Temperature Monitoring in Hospitals to Achieve Regulatory
Compliance and Improve Staff Efficiency
Redwood City, CA - AeroScout, Inc. <http://www.aeroscout.com/>
, the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility solutions,
today announced the launch of a wireless Temperature Monitoring
application for the healthcare industry. Part of AeroScout's
industry leading Healthcare Visibility Suite, the Temperature
Monitoring application is a complete solution for logging and
alerting staff of temperature fluctuations for critical
healthcare items and products, over any standard Wi-Fi wireless
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'Through applications like wireless temperature monitoring,
AeroScout's Healthcare Visibility Suite is helping many of the
world's leading hospitals increase regulatory compliance,
improve processes, increase safety and enhance patient care,"
said Gabi Daniely, Vice President of Marketing and Product
Strategy at AeroScout. 'Temperature monitoring meets a real,
tangible need among hospitals, and is a prime example of how a
comprehensive visibility solution over Wi-Fi can increase
quality of care."
Regulatory organizations, such as The Joint Commission (formerly
JCAHO), set stringent standards for daily or more frequent
temperature monitoring in hospitals. Maintaining these standards
for nursing, laboratory and pharmacy staff has traditionally
been a manual process that is labor and time intensive and prone
to errors, or has required expensive, single-purpose products.
The AeroScout solution, which is FDA-registered, utilizes the
company's market leading Wi-Fi RFID tags with integrated
temperature sensors, and a software module for logging and
acting upon temperature data. Because the same tags and
infrastructure can also be used for other visibility
applications such as medical asset tracking and patient workflow
improvement, customers can take advantage of a scalable and
cost-effective system that can perform multiple applications as
their needs expand.
The tags are simply placed inside refrigerators, freezers and
deep freezers that contain expensive and difficult to replace
items such as vaccines, pharmaceuticals, tissues, blood bags,
organs and patient test results. The tags wirelessly and
automatically send temperature readings over a standard Wi-Fi
network to AeroScout's MobileView software. If the temperature
of the cooling unit exceeds or goes below a set threshold, an
alert is triggered and sent to hospital staff.
Temperature-triggered alerts can be sent to hospital staff and
all information including temperature logs, alerts and
corrective actions are stored in AeroScout MobileView. Users can
generate reports and analyze temperature trends and deviations.
Several hospitals have already begun using AeroScout's wireless
Temperature Monitoring Solution, including Jan Yperman Hospital
in Belgium.
'Automatically monitoring and reporting on asset temperatures
will free our nurses and clinical staff up to do what they do
best: provide our patients with the highest quality care
possible," said Christophe Mouton, Director of Administration,
Finance, ICT and Technical Service, Jan Yperman Hospital. 'The
ability to use our existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to monitor
temperature is a major advantage offered by AeroScout, and one
that keeps costs low while integrating easily into our clinical
environment."
AeroScout's Healthcare Visibility Suite
offers a comprehensive set of wireless solutions to increase
visibility of assets and patients within healthcare facilities.
In addition to wireless Temperature Monitoring, AeroScout's
Wi-Fi Healthcare Visibility Suite includes Asset Management,
Equipment Maintenance, Workflow & Resource Management and
Patient & Staff Safety solutions. These solutions all utilize
the same Wi-Fi infrastructure, MobileView software and tags,
making it easy for hospitals to scale and gain increasing
benefits. AeroScout is also exclusively endorsed by the American
Hospital Association (AHA) for Wi-Fi-Based RFID solutions.
AeroScout will demonstrate its wireless
Temperature Monitoring Solution in booth #2335 at the HIMSS 2008
Conference, February 24-28 at the Orange County Convention
Center in Orlando, as well as at the booths of Cisco (#6251) and
other partners. For more information on AeroScout's wireless
Temperature Monitoring solution and Wi-Fi healthcare visibility
suite, please visit www.aeroscout.com <http://www.aeroscout.com>
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About AeroScout
AeroScout is the market
leader in Unified Asset Visibility solutions. The company's
products accurately locate and monitor assets and people over
standard Wi-Fi networks, to improve and automate business
processes. AeroScout's global customer base includes many of the
Fortune 500 and the world's leading hospitals. Founded in 2000,
AeroScout pioneered the Wi-Fi visibility market by introducing
the industry's first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and is widely
recognized as leading the market in number of tags shipped.
AeroScout is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices
in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Australia.
For more information, please visit www.aeroscout.com. AeroScout
is a registered trademark of AeroScout, Inc. Wi-Fi is a
trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners. Information is subject to
change without notice. |
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