I2 Build 2012, Sonitor

Jørn S. Husemoen, the Chief Executive Officer of Sonitor, flew into join us at InSites Build 2012.  Sonitor is based in Oslo, Norway and makes active RTLS hardware built on ultrasound technology.  In the U.S., they are located in Reston, Virginia. Husemoen spent several years at Ericsson in Europe, India, and China markets and has held financial and other leadership positions.  He is focused on further increasing the accuracy of their active hardware down to millimeter resolution. 

I first came in contact with Sonitor years back at a trade show in Baltimore, MD, USA.  In my book, Covering Your Assets by Exposing the Butt-Ugly Truth, I wrote about the presentations I attended and the impressions they left on me.   Sonitor gave one of those presentations.   They presented the case for ultrasound, especially when sub-zone resolution was needed.  A path to patient and staff tracking became part of my planned trajectory – assets tracking to decrease expense; temperature monitoring to insure compliance reduce loss, and save time; patient transport to improve dispatch and response; then to the operating room.   The operating room would have been our 1st attempt to of applying RTLS mostly for the purpose of increasing revenue.

A sub-zone is an area within an area, a space in which you want to distinguish from with a larger space.  For example, an open cafeteria can be sub-zoned into a salad station, a hot bar, a grill, a desert station, etc.  The particular case Sonitor presented was for the Emergency Department.

Treatment rooms or triage areas can be one room separated by curtains.  Each curtained area may contain a stretcher or exam table.   
- Tag the staff
- Tag the patient
- Create a sub-zone (patient’s space) in each treatment area
- Track each person entering into each patient space
- That allows matching the purpose of each visit to the patient’s treatment
- Interface that information into the patient record
- Use the information to reinforce and influence process.
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