Awarepoint’s RTLS to be Featured at Intelligent Hospital Pavilion at HIMSS 2014

SAN DIEGO - Feb. 20, 2014 - PRLog -- SAN DIEGO – February 20, 2014 - Awarepoint Corporation (http://www.awarepoint.com/), the largest real-time location system (RTLS) corporation dedicated exclusively to healthcare, today announced its integrated RTLS platform will be featured in a variety of venues at HIMSS14 (http://www.himssconference.org/) (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society 2014 Annual Conference & Exhibition), February 23-27, in Orlando. Visitors to Awarepoint’s booth, #1817, and the RFID in Healthcare Consortium (RHCC) Intelligent Hospital™ (IH) Pavilion (http://intelligenthospital.org/himss14/) will interact with RTLS and RFID applications that improve patient care and safety while reducing operating expenses. Participants will explore Awarepoint’s approach to improving asset management, patient flow and care team efficiency in the interactive Emergency Room and Surgical Suite.

Awarepoint will also celebrate with RHCC Intelligent Hospital Award Winners on Monday, February 24, including Christiana Care Health System’s Leslie Mulshenock, Director of Heart and Vascular Interventional Services, and Matthew P. Esham, Business Relationship Manager for the Heart and Vascular Interventional Services, winners in the category of Most Innovative Use of Business Intelligence. Attendees are encouraged to learn more about Christiana’s story by attending the education session entitled RTLS, Predictive Analytics Drive Patient Throughput and Satisfaction (http://www.himssconference.org/Education/EventDetail.aspx...).

“We continue to support venues that seek to improve patient care and safety through innovative technologies, and look forward to demonstrating how our hospital clients are leveraging RTLS to gain a competitive advantage,” stated Jay Deady, President and CEO of Awarepoint. “We will demonstrate our ability to capture real-time data that automatically populates the EHR and other HIT systems and produces immediate, actionable information that helps maximize the value of these major investments.”

The Intelligent Health Association (http://ihassociation.org/) will also present a symposium on Sunday, February 23, Join the Evolution to the Revolution – Transforming and Innovating Healthcare Through New Technologies (http://intelligenthospital.org/symposium/), discussing innovative technologies that are creating dramatic improvements in patient care, patient safety and operating efficiencies. Experts from Kaiser Permanente, Veterans Affairs, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Alameda County Medical Center, Florida Hospital and other organizations will present case studies of lessons learned from first-hand experiences in implementing new technologies.

Awarepoint’s aware360°Suite (http://www.awarepoint.com/solutions) automates and streamlines asset management, ED and OR care, capacity management, patient flow, caregiver coordination, quality and regulatory compliance, and patient and staff satisfaction. The suite spans the entire hospital enterprise, leveraging tag location and movement to track report on, and proactively improve asset, staff and patient workflows.

About Awarepoint

Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry's only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology and managed services. The company delivers rapid-time-to-impact implementations, with room- and bay-level accuracy and guaranteed interaction detection. Awarepoint’s solution addresses all requirements associated with delivering RTLS applications for use in dynamic, technologically and operationally challenging environments. Awarepoint's experience and solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com.