Service Magazine Fall 2017

12 | @Service Magazine Summer 2017 Service Encompass technology helps unlock efficiencies in patient care and equipment service Real-time location systems (RTLS) help many people in hospitals. Nurses can find equipment quickly; patients aren’t kept waiting for care. Biomedical engineers can easily locate devices that have maintenance due. RTLS also helps leaders better manage mobile equipment and right-size inventories. And yet, the technology has seen slow adoption, being costly and cumbersome to install. With GE Healthcare’s new Encompass RTLS offering, those days are over. Fully wireless, built on Bluetooth® low-energy and hospitals’ existing Wi-Fi® networks, it can be installed in days instead of months, at up to 60 percent less cost than for conventional systems, and without opening ceilings and drilling into walls to install cables. Game-Changing RTLS