• Save time and improve patient and staff satisfaction with instant discovery of exact equipment locations via online maps

• Reduce equipment expenditures and improve inventory management with audit trails and real-time, zone-based alerts

• Quickly and easily locate assets for regulatory audits

If you cannot find a wheelchair or IV pump when you need one, you and your staff waste valuable time and frustrate your patients. Part of the Cisco® Clinical Connection Suite, the Location- Based Services system from Cisco allows you to log in from any nearby PC, where a campus map shows you the actual location of every piece of tagged equipment. Not only can you save hours of time for both daily use and periodic equipment maintenance, the system's security capabilities could potentially save tens of thousands, even millions of dollars a year now spent replacing "missing" equipment.

The Location-Based Services solution from Cisco Systems® makes it easier to find equipment. Everyone--including nurses and other clinicians, inventory managers, maintenance personnel, and security teams--can now devote the hours they used to spend looking for equipment to more productive endeavors.

As a component of the Cisco Clinical Connection Suite, the Location-Based Services system is a combination of desktop PCs, a location engine, Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) tags, and a Cisco Medical-Grade network. The equipment manager places RFID tags on designated equipment, and the RFID monitoring system (available through Cisco partners) continually updates device locations and online maps that staff view from any PC. The system can alert you when equipment strays outside a designated "zone," keeping it readily available within a defined area for your use and reducing equipment loss. The Cisco network integrates voice, video, and data into a single infrastructure. Deploying Location-Based Services on the existing network is easier to manage and less expensive than a separate system.