Aeroscout and Stanley Healthcare Solutions

As I look at Stanley Healthcare Solutions and the 21 healthcare brands listed on their website, it appears that there are some redundancies that could be worked out by the parent company Stanley Black and Decker.

Any company that buys a business that offers similar products and services has to deal with the costs associated with redundancy and how to transition in a way the brings benefit not headaches for the customers and the investors.

So, what’s the best structure to work out those redundancies and what part will Aeroscout play in the streamlining the hardware, software and professional services?  Perhaps this is where the reports of having Aeroscout to act as a research and development center may come into play.  Or will InfoLogix take that lead?  We will find out soon enough.

In saying that, I am more curious to learn whether Stanley Healthcare Solutions will continue to fall under Stanley Black and Decker’s security segment.  Patient security and preventing patient injury are both important.  Healthcare professionals deal with these risks as well as others every day.

The number of staff to staff and staff to patient interactions, the patient data collected, the drugs delivered, laboratory testing, surgeries, diagnostics, charge capture, EMR, and more - this is the current path of RTLS in healthcare.  RTLS is an additional set of integrated tools and processes, leveraged to allow a hospital to perform better for their patients, reduce cost, and increase revenue.  Consider all that for a single hospital then take it global. 

In my last post, If Stanley Black and Decker Buys Aeroscout, May 21, 2012,.  I talked about their leadership structure as related to Stanley Healthcare Solutions.  I could not find a senior executive with a healthcare anywhere in their title.  GE, Siemens and Toshiba own businesses in multiple segments.  They all have acquired other companies.  They all have CEO’s for their Healthcare Businesses.  Aeroscout has a General Manager for Healthcare listed on their site for their healthcare customers to see.  It is not uncommon to find physicians and/or nurses as part of the executive leadership for some of the other healthcare players in RTLS.  I see none for Stanley Healthcare Solutions.

Again, we will see what happens if the acquisition takes place.