CSSS of St. Jerome Deploys Ekahau RTLS to Improve Patient and Staff SafetyCSSS of St. Jerome Deploys Ekahau RTLS to Improve Patient and Staff Safety
April 20th, 2010
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Leading Canadian Hospital Uses Ekahau Badge Tags and Wi-Fi-based Location Tracking Technology to Speed Response Times When Staff Need Assistance
RESTON, Virginia, April 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --
Ekahau Inc., the performance leader in Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that the Centre de sante et services sociaux (CSSS) de St-Jerome (the St-Jerome health and social services centre), a 405-bed multidisciplinary hospital in Quebec, Canada, is utilizing Ekahau RTLS to improve patient and staff safety. Ekahau is proud to work with ICT solution provider and system integrator Bell Canada to deliver an innovative solution that enables faster response times when patients or staff need assistance. It works by pinpointing their location using the Ekahau T301BD pager tags worn by hospital staff in the hospital's mental health facility.
The Ekahau tags are part of the Ekahau RTLS solution, an enterprise-grade location tracking platform used today by many leading hospitals around the world. Ekahau RTLS leverages a hospital's existing Wi-Fi network to locate small battery-powered tags anywhere within the footprint of the network within a matter of seconds.
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