GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. and SAN DIEGO, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ —
Skytron Inc., a division of the KMW Group,  and Awarepoint Corp. today
announced Texoma Medical
Center has implemented the companies’ Real-time Location System
(RTLS)  to
automatically track and manage over 200 hospital assets, as well as
to monitor all visiting vendor sales representatives within the
318,000 square foot hospital facility.

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“Optimizing utilization of our critical mobile assets including
IV pumps, telemetry packs, wound vacs, wheelchairs and security
tracking of visiting vendor sales representatives were key goals
for Texoma Medical Center,” said Gregg Stepp, director of supply
chain operations at Texoma Medical Center. ” RTLS asset tracking
and management provides us a better way to deliver care, locate our
assets and use them more efficiently, as well as increase security
hospital-wide to ensure patient and staff safety.”

With easy access to the RTLS
system via a desktop icon, all authorized employees can easily
locate the nearest available equipment in real-time.  Wireless
temperature tracking
is also provided for all nourishment refrigerato

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