Khoo Teck Puat Hospital’s (KTPH) real-time location system (RTLS) makes it easier to track medical equipment, helping nurses and staff save 20,000 work hours a year by cutting the time spent searching for them.

It also allows the state-owned Singapore hospital to seamlessly transfer patients between departments, Alvin Kuo, assistant director of operations at KTPH, told Healthcare Asia.

Photo from Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.

“We also use the system to track patients, starting from the point when they are admitted to the emergency department, transferred to the ward, and finally discharged from the hospital,” he said via Zoom.

Since real-time location systems have a built-in battery and power source, they are more accurate and could continuously broadcast their location.

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