Emergency Provider to Track Patients

HDM Breaking News, September 25, 2007

Houston-based Emergency Health Centre has implemented an emergency department patient tracking and charting system from Mission Viejo, Calif.-based Patient Care Technology Systems.

The emergency facility is using the vendor's Amelior ED technology, which has been integrated with ultrasound-based tracking technology from Sonitor Technologies, Largo, Fla. The system offers nurse and physician charting, computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support.

Its tracking application uses tags that send ultrasound waves to microphones installed in various locations throughout a hospital. The tags, which are attached to items or patient wristbands, communicate location and identification information via the sound wave. The microphones then send the information to the system's server, which displays it on the Amelior ED system.

Emergency Health Centre is the first provider organization to use the system since the vendors integrated their technologies about four months ago, executives at the companies say. For more information, go to pcts.com.

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