The Challenge

Leading-edge technologies are being deployed throughout the healthcare system to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery services.  To get the maximum return from these technology investments, healthcare networks must make sure that technology is integrated into solutions that are easily deployed and easily supported.

Consider today’s technology-heavy operating rooms (ORs).  Numerous controllable devices, including scopes, arms, lasers, operating tables, lighting, drapes, and teleconferencing technology, are used to conduct critical procedures and display vital information.  Yet hospitals have lacked cost-effective solutions to centrally control and monitor all of this advanced OR equipment to ensure medical procedures are completed as efficiently as possible. 

Similar challenges are faced elsewhere in the industry.  Regardless of whether technology is used directly for patient services, training for medical professionals and staff, or any other purpose, it is more critical than ever that healthcare-related technology is centrally controlled and monitored.  That’s where Simtrol comes in.

The Solution

Many areas of the healthcare system have historically relied on device-specific technology to control their equipment.  ORs have typically used expensive proprietary hardware-based solutions to control individual medical devices.  Neither approach is optimal in this world of rapidly evolving technology.  Simtrol’s Device Management Platform makes utilizing and managing complex medical technology easier while also increasing efficiency and improving patient care.  The Simtrol solution provides the ability to easily aggregate disparate devices and centrally control, monitor, and manage these devices. 

For users of technology, such as doctors, nurses, training staff and other medical professionals, Simtrol's Device Management Platform provides easy-to-use Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that take all guesswork out of using advanced equipment.  For CIOs, technology managers, and IT support staff, Simtrol's solution delivers web-based management of all technology deployed in a given room, hospital, campus, or even an entire healthcare network.  

The Benefits

When is comes to healthcare, time is money. When you consider that one minute in the OR today costs between $90 and $200, technology that can compress time and improve overall effectiveness is vital. 

Simtrol’s leading-edge Device Management Platform improves the return on healthcare technology investments by delivering the following benefits:

• Improve efficiency of doctors, nurses, and other technology users by providing easy-to-use GUIs that can be integrated into existing applications and processes
• Enable more robust technology deployment strategies through centralized maintenance and management at the room, wing, hospital, or network levels 
• Extend asset life through proactive maintenance and optimized device settings
• Reduce operating costs by enabling centralized management of assets and simplifying technology support requirements
• Improve revenue by increasing device uptime and utilization