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Connectivity - smart solutions for health and care

Intelligent networking of people and objects offers great hope in the healthcare sector. When it comes to improving the care situation, few resources are as promising as rapid digitalisation. But this only applies ifthe smart solutions bring real added value, are easy to use, and do not overwhelm people.

These are precisely the goals that our Connectivity Lab is pursuing. The networking ofour beds noticeably relieves care staff and represents a great boost in terms of safety for residents and
patients. With ourtailored connectivity solutions, your facility will take a giant step into the future.

Problem-free digitalisation

Localise and manage medical devices in real time

Bed management

Modern management of beds and other mobile medical devices helps hospitals to save time and money and conserve human and material resources.

Where are hospital beds located? Are they available or occupied? What is their hygienic and technical status? This information can be easily determined using the real-time localisation solution HPM® (Hygiene Process Management), which Stiegelmeyer offers together with its German partner company CLINARIS.

Manual and automated detection

Bed management for individual requirements

The aim of bed management is to determine the real-time location data of the tracked beds. This data can be complemented with status information using the HPM® application. For this purpose, the beds are labelled. The label features an NFC tag (optionally also RFID) and a QR code as well as an identification number that can be defined by the bed operator. There are 2 variants for determining the location:

Manual tracking

With manual tracking, the location is determined by assigning the beds to their respective parking spaces. For this purpose, the parking spaces and beds are fitted with labels. Nursing staff or technicians scan the NFC tags or QR codes on the bed and at the bed location, thereby linking them.

Automated tracking

With the help of a tracking infrastructure based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), RFID or WLAN, the location of beds or other mobile medical devices can be determined automatically. The beds are equipped with corresponding transmitters for this purpose.

Request or reassign status:

Using the HPM® application on a smartphone, tablet or hand scanner, the nursing staff can address the bed and check its current status or assign it a new status. This includes, for example, the occupancy status, the hygienic condition or the question of whether there is a defect or maintenance is due. This information is displayed together with the current location of the bed on all mobile devices with the HPM® app and on the browser view of the ward PC.

All the procedures described can also be used to manage bedside cabinets, wheelchairs, medical equipment and other selected items of furniture.

All additional information at a glance

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Helpful information in daily life

Especially in times of staff shortages, it is difficult to keep an eye on the safety and well-being of the residents everywhere in the building. Our networked care beds take much of this work off your shoulders. Our new generation Elvido bed, for example, reports status information to a user-friendly dashboard:

  • Messages from the Out-of-Bed system
  • Bed at lowest position, for fall prevention
  • Power plug is disconnected
  • Technical defect

Digital solutions for significant relief

Smart Hospital

Bed tracking is an important component of the Stiegelmeyer Connect portfolio. In line with the motto ‘Smart Hospital’, our Connectivity Unit in Herford develops digital solutions for greater safety and relief in hospitals. The cooperation with CLINARIS is a good example of our successful partnerships with experienced, innovative partners.

Advantages of real-time tracking:

 

  • Quick access to urgently needed beds and medical products improves the efficient utilisation of the inventory.
  • Search and walk times are reduced.
  • Saves time and reduces the workload for the staff.
Benefits for hygiene
  • Contamination is detected in real time and chains of infection can be interrupted at an early stage.
     
  • Labelling contaminated beds and other medical devices improves safety for patients, visitors and staff.
     
  • An automatically generated proof of reprocessing, including all individual steps, can improve the hospital’s legal position in the event of a lawsuit (reversal of the burden of proof).
     
  • Interfaces to hygiene management systems are possible in order to automatically transfer the patient’s hygiene status to the beds and medical devices located at the storage location.
Benefits for the technical department
  • Faster repairs increase the availability of beds and other medical devices.
     
  • Defects can be reported paperless.
     
  • Automated forwarding of defect reports to Stiegelmeyer possible during the warranty period.
     
  • Maintenance, inspection and calibration dates are shown in the HPM® application.
     
  • Bi-directional interface to CAFM systems possible

ESSENTIALLY BETTER

High-quality labels

  • Disinfectable and washable in accordance with DIN EN 60601-2-52
  • Can be used at temperatures from -20 to +85 °C
  • Chemical resistance
  • Scrub-wipe disinfection1
  • Automated reprocessing2

1 Dismozon Pur (Bode Chemie), Incidin Plus (Ecolab), Perform (Schülke), Terralin Protect (Schülke), TPH Protect (Schülke)
2 Sekumatic FDR and FKN (Ecolab), Neodisher Dekonta AF (Dr. Weigert), Neodisher TN (Dr. Weigert)

The mobile assistance system Out-of-Bed flex (OOB flex)

The customised solution for stand-up messages

Your advantages at a glance

  • Flexible use – no design or technical requirements to be fulfilled by the Stiegelmeyer care bed
     
  • Tool-free assembly
     
  • The range of preset times is based on the proven design of the Stiegelmeyer OOB smart handset
     
  • The power supply can be customised to take account of the structural situation either through the use of an external power supply unit or via the Linak bed control
     
  • OOB flex can be enhanced with the addition of a reading lamp
     

  • Flexible option for connecting to standard nurse call systems

    Find out more in our OOB flex brochure (nursing home)!

    Find out more in our OOB flex brochure (hospital)!

The Connectivity Lab

Practical digital solutions cannot be created in an ivory tower. Our Connectivity Lab in Herford, Germany, realistically recreates everyday hospital life and provides an ideal framework for ideas that offer great potential. Visit us in the Connectivity Lab and bring your ideas to the table. We look forward to seeing you.

 

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