MedCity News reports that PeaceHealth, a 10-hospital system in the Pacific Northwest, continues to benefit from its real-time location system (RTLS).

In 2006, the Vancouver, Wash.-based not-for-profit  system PeaceHealth started with an RTLS pilot in the emergency department of its Eugene, Ore.,  hospital to improve department efficiency. PeaceHealth later turned the Eugene facility into a specialty hospital, but replicated the RTLS setup in a replacement full-service hospital that opened in 2008.

“With the help of software from Versus Technology … PeaceHealth has since integrated the RTLS with its admit-discharge-transfer system and created a dashboard to track patient, staff and equipment movement throughout the ED and beyond. The dashboard displays pertinent patient data, including chief complaints and status of laboratory and imaging orders,”  MedCity reported.

“And the health system is now starting to integrate the RTLS with its Epic Systems electronic health record”