title: New tracking systems improve patient flow.
abstract: Wireless or infrared tracking systems can help you keep a handle on patient whereabouts, the status of tests that have been ordered, and locate important equipment in a more timely manner. Managers can track activities in admissions, lab, and pharmacy from a single location. Staff no longer has to spend time looking for patients, equipment, or each other. Key information is not only visible on a central monitor, but on every desktop computer in the ED.
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017050:Episode of Care; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D014481:United States