Healthcare is an industry that has been at the forefront of innovation and advancement – with new breakthroughs in technology helping the sector cope with increasing demands and strains.
Recently, Zebra Technologies published an insightful report into the potential for innovation in material management across hospitals in both the UK and the US. The report explores and highlights the obstacles encountered by hospitals as they face growing demands, while highlighting possible solutions.
We have been proud partners of Zebra technologies for several years and work alongside them to deliver transformative solutions across a wide variety of sectors and industries.
The report outlined the Top Three Game-Changing Technologies (as seen by non-clinical leadership) which form the basis of the digital transformation process. We’re going to outline these three technologies and explore how Pro-Cloud, coupled with Zebra hardware, can help hospitals and healthcare services utilise these technologies for optimised day-to-day processes and workflows.
You can read the full report here
1. Location and Tracking Systems
Being both an Independent Software Vendor and Location & Tracking Specialist allows us to provide our software to clients across the healthcare sector. With a wealth of experience behind us, we provide our clients with the ultimate software solution for centralised asset and consumable management across multiple locations.
The Pro-Cloud asset management platform comes with modules and features designed to benefit healthcare services.
See below a rundown of every module on the Pro-Cloud system and what they can bring to your healthcare service.
Essential
- Asset & Inventory Management – This module is the foundation of the Pro-Cloud software solution. Centralising and managing assets from one platform allows you to view and track assets through every step of their lifecycle across multiple locations.
- Catalogue Management – Holding a comprehensive live catalogue of everything in your inventory across multiple locations in one centralised platform provides you with unmatched insight, visibility, traceability, and accountability.
- Stock Management – This module allows you to centralise every aspect of the stock management process for the foreseeable future with intuitive frameworks designed to streamline and optimise spending, procurement, stock transfers, receiving goods, and more.
- Tasks & Servicing – Set up automatic reminders for maintenance tasks and servicing processes for equipment across your organisation.
- Mobile Workforce – Benefit from an anytime, anywhere working solution with our dynamic Mobile Workforce feature. Carry out work in the field or in low connectivity areas and synchronise jobs and tasks once you have a connection – simultaneously ensuring real-time synchronisation and updates with the main system as well as full traceability.
- Route Optimisation & Logistics – Fully optimise your fleet of vehicles across every aspect of your service and organisation by plotting the most efficient routes. Combined with telematic tracking you can also benefit from full insight into driving behaviour across your entire fleet, vehicle service history, and more.
- Client Relationship Management – Utilising the Client Relationship Management tool allows for multiple new users to streamline and consolidate their workflows into one accessible system.
- Business Intelligence Reporting – Drill down into the details with our suite of reporting features supporting a wide variety of formats including xlsx, pdf, csv, and more. Make data driven decisions based on comprehensive reports from every aspect of your operations.
Bolt-On
Auto-Replenishment – This module empowers clients to automate and optimise their stock replenishment processes, streamlining supply chains and minimising overall costs.- Fleet Management – Equipping your fleet of registered vehicles, whether they’re part of a supply chain or a fleet of ambulances, will enable for hands-on management and enhanced visibility.
- Supplier Management – Keep track of suppliers and drill down into the details of your outgoing costs in one user-friendly interface.
- Make-Ready – Streamline the Make-Ready process with this industry-specific module. Carry out road-ready checks for a vehicle, conduct inventory checks, verify and track cleaning procedures, and more. Inventory checks that took 30 minutes can now take 30 seconds.
- Asset Packing – This module streamlines and optimises the packing process, allowing you to have a fully traceable account of your processes with verification and allocated items.
- Ready-to-Go RFID Application – Implement RFID technology into every step of your processes with instantaneous inventory checks, stock takes, and more. Free up time for more critical and pressing work and let the system and hardware do the work.
- Procurement/Purchasing Management – Being able to seamlessly manage and track your finances, outgoings, and suppliers comes easy with our Purchasing module. This feature is designed to streamline the purchasing process; allowing for automation while also benefiting from an intuitive user-friendly design – managing purchases has never been easier.
2. RFID Technology
The Pro-Cloud solution also integrates a combination of RFID and IoT Technology to provide users with the ultimate inventory, asset, and consumables management processes. Equipping a healthcare service with RFID (either in the hospital or at any point across the supply chain) can minimise human error and expedite and streamline stock processes. Utilising our Specialist RFID Gateways, you can embed RFID scanning into multiple aspects of your operations – from vehicles to depots.
RFID Technology is part and parcel of the Pro-Cloud family of asset management software solutions. It revolutionises healthcare with simultaneous instant tag reads which ensure that healthcare assets and consumables can be tracked and located in real-time – minimising downtime and optimising workflows across every level of your service.
Look through our case studies to find out what the next stage of RFID integration could look like for your organisation.
3. Handheld Mobile Computers
Through our partnership with Zebra, we can offer our clients a wide range of intuitive and robust hardware designed to meet the demands of any healthcare service. Whether it’s rugged, durable hardware built to withstand use in high-intensity environments, or the HC range – coming with a range of features specifically to help healthcare professionals. CSS provides you with the perfect hardware package to complement your software solution.
As an Independent Software Vendor for Zebra Technologies, the Pro-Cloud solution works hand in hand with these devices and provides you with a two-tier solution delivering efficiencies on both fronts.
This, when combined with the Pro-Cloud asset and consumables management solution, is a sure-fire way to ensure that every step of the process across every arm of a healthcare service is optimised to deliver on two fronts: maximised day-to-day efficiency for healthcare professionals and better patient outcomes.
Furthermore, the implementation of RFID alongside our cloud-based solution provides clients and end-users with an intuitive and robust solution to manage, monitor, track, and trace their inventory across every step of its lifecycle – from pallet to patient.
In summary, the road to modernisation for hospitals and healthcare is a long one but with a two-tier solution from Pro-Cloud and Zebra – you can benefit from efficiencies and operational optimisation from day one.
For more information on how Pro-Cloud and Zebra Technologies can transform your healthcare service with software and hardware solutions, contact our Business Development Team.
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All information accurate at time of publishing
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