Responder IV/5 Integrated Nurse Call Features Elpas RTLS Functionality

Visonic Technologies and Rauland-Borg announce the interoperability of Elpas RTLS technology with legacy Responder IV Nurse Call installations. Thanks to Responder 5’s new interoperable platform, hospitals implementing the Network Adaptor Module (NAM) to update their Responder IV installations can now utilize the open integrations functionality of Responder 5 Software to add Elpas RTLS technology. Now Responder IV installations can support real-time staff presence functionality throughout the hospital to room and sub-room level accuracy, automatic visual indication that a patient’s needs are being responded to and automatic nurse call cancellation.

Hospitals may easily leverage their Elpas RTLS investment to enhance other areas of patient and personnel safety including Infant/Baby Protection in maternity wards, Staff Attack/Duress Alerting and Wandering Patient Supervision. Elpas Active RFID/RTLS can also be scaled to Manage Medical Assets in order to reduce shrinkage and lower maintenance related labor costs without degradation to nurse call functionality.

London School of Hygiene Researchers Select Elpas for Behavior Pilot Study

Researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have selected Elpas RTLS for a pilot study of personal hygiene behavior in the home. Elpas RTLS will be used to determine whether real-time location data will be able to unobtrusively provide accurate information about an individual’s every day hygiene activities over extended periods of time.

 The selected Elpas Hygiene Monitoring Solution combines Active RFID Wrist and Asset Tags, RF Tracking Readers and LF Exciters to accurately define sub-room areas such as bathroom sinks, toilets and showers. The tags when worn by the participants and attached to various home hygiene objects such as toothpaste and soap dispensers will enable researchers to infer behavior practices based on the simultaneous co-location of the participant and the tagged hygiene objects.

 Elpas was selected from other competing RTLS systems due to its ability to identify key behaviors of multiple people within a household, by locating people and objects to small zones within rooms. Elpas was also able to provide application specific Active RFID Tags with a long battery life (to avoid the need to interact with participants on a regular basis to change batteries), ability to access the data remotely, and being relatively cost effective compared to other options.

Elpas RTLS will provide behavioral measurement reports relating to the daily hygiene activities (such as hand washing, bathing, toilet usage, oral hygiene and vitamin ingestion by family member, location and time). Researchers also intend to use Elpas  to investigate ways to promote healthy habits as a way to achieving sustainable improvements to health related behaviors.

Stan Getz, New Sales Manager for VT

Visonic Technologies today announces the appointment of Mr. Stan Getz as Regional Sales Manager for the Western United States as well as the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. In his new capacity, Mr. Getz will be responsible for the promotion, sale and support of VT’s Active RFID/RTLS Safety, Security and Visibility Solutions to VT’s network of resellers, system integrators and end users. While primarily focusing on acute healthcare, Mr. Getz will also support VT’s marketing and sales strategies of Elpas RTLS and SpiderAlert Emergency Signaling Solutions into assisted living facilities, museums, prisons and intelligent building environments.

 Before joining Visonic Technologies, Mr. Getz recently served as a Regional Sales VP at Intelligent InSites. His background also includes extensive western regional sales management experience with Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS).