This webinar was originally broadcast Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 8am pacific | 10 am central | 11am eastern
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Discover how hospitals are embracing an innovative, healthcare-focused technology that determines not only location, but status, movement and overall contextual awareness of medical devices, patients and staff. This new “sensor-network” based approach touches all areas of the hospital enterprise and transforms patient flow and patient care through optimal resource management.
Attend this 60-minute webinar and you will:
- Find out why knowing more than just the location of hospital resources can improve quality of care and patient outcomes while substantially reducing costs
- Understand some of the human factors in deploying a hospital-wide tracking system that favorably impacts different departments
- See how hospitals can generate a significant and faster return-on-investment from implementing a future-driven enterprise solution
Thomas Bradshaw
Vice President of Operations
Wayne Memorial HospitalTom Bradshaw has been vice president of operations for Wayne Memorial Hospital since 2000. He has more than 36 years of diversified health-care management and leadership experience in system, community, academic, religious, for-profit and military hospitals in Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina, including five years as a hospital president and CEO.
He earned a Masters of Health Administration degree from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University and received his undergraduate degree from the United States Military Academy (West Point). Tom served six years of active duty in the Army Medical Service Corps as a commissioned officer, followed by three years as a reserve officer in medical and infantry units. Assignments included military hospitals, army field units, medical research and development and military schools, including two assignments in command positions. He is an active Rotarian and Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Michael Nelson
President and Chief Operating Officer
RadarFind CorporationMike Nelson has a proven record of leading rapidly growing companies in the development and commercialization of emerging technology. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of TeleTracking, directing strategic acquisition and business development initiatives. Previously, he was president of Injured Workers Pharmacy, a company serving patients through workers compensation insurance and specializing in drug therapy protocols for pain management. Mike managed several other rapidly growing businesses in health insurance operations, and led an advisory management firm counseling companies in healthcare, information technologies and financial services. He also served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Heritage Valley Health System, a community-based healthcare system of hospitals in Pennsylvania.
Stephen Jackson
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
RadarFind CorporationSteve Jackson is a seasoned veteran of the communications industry and has been directly involved with technology implementers as an applications specialist, development engineer, and entrepreneur for nearly three decades. In the past 12 years he has adopted a keen focus on acute-care facility communications needs, including investigating, engineering and deploying hierarchical networking systems for hospital facilities of all sizes.
Steve was formerly a director in the Nortel Innovations Lab Advanced R&D Center, and CTO at Elixar, a WiFi/cloud computing security start-up company. Since 1997, his work has concentrated on the field of efficient wireless sensor networks, and on leading-edge mixed-signal microcontroller innovation. In the process, he filed 23 US patent applications, and of the 15 patents awarded to date, three are key patents in the RadarFind wireless locating architecture, and one is an underpinning for the IEEE 802.3af standard. Steve has written multiple technical articles appearing in Medical Design and Wireless Design and Development. On behalf of RadarFind, in November 2008 he accepted the Most Innovative Use of Technology award from the North Carolina Technology Association.
RadarFind's Real Time Location System uses an innovative wireless sensor network platform to determine location, status and contextual awareness of medical equipment and patients. The system is highly accurate, yet non-disruptive to hospital operations, with a scalable, flexible design to simplify work and patient flow processes. Developed by hospital administrators specifically for the healthcare environment, the RadarFind system optimizes resources and delivers a fast, consistently proven ROI. RadarFind Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TeleTracking Technologies, Inc., the leader in patient flow automation solutions with more than 800 hospital clients in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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- Barbara Kirchheimer, former Modern Healthcare news editor and reporter
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