Medical Asset Tracking
Mismanaged medical assets disrupt workflows, raise costs, and impact patient care. Litum’s Asset Tracking RTLS delivers real-time location and historical data, helping healthcare facilities prevent losses, boost efficiency, and cut costs.
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The Smart Way to Track Assets for Better Care and Cost Management
Are you struggling with these common problems in your healthcare facility?
Nurses spend nearly an hour per shift searching for equipment
Lost or misplaced devices cost hospitals an average of $6,500 per item
Hospitals over-purchase by 20–30% to make up for underutilized or missing assets
Limited visibility delays treatment and drives up costs
Every missing device impacts patient care, staff efficiency, and your bottom line. Litum’s Asset Tracking RTLS delivers real-time visibility into the location and status of equipment so it’s always available when needed. From operating rooms to storage, our scalable system transforms asset management and delivers measurable ROI.
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From Location to Optimization
Real-Time Location Data
- Maximize equipment utilization with real-time location data, ensuring medical devices and tools are always where they’re needed, when they’re needed
- Streamline healthcare workflows by identifying idle or underutilized assets, reducing delays in patient care and optimizing operations
- Minimize equipment losses with real-time alerts for unauthorized movement, preventing misplacement, theft, or improper use of medical assets
- Automate compliance and reporting for asset usage, maintenance schedules, and inventory levels, ensuring regulatory adherence and operational consistency
Spaghetti Diagrams
- Visualize asset movement paths to identify redundancies and optimize equipment usage across healthcare facilities
- Reduce inefficiencies by uncovering unnecessary asset relocations, ensuring streamlined workflows and minimizing downtime
- Highlight underutilized assets and congestion points to improve resource allocation and space utilization
- Pinpoint high-traffic zones to prevent equipment bottlenecks and ensure asset availability where it’s needed most
- Enable data-driven decisions with clear visual insights into asset movement patterns for smarter operational planning
Utilization Reports
- Track asset utilization by equipment or equipment type to identify underused or overburdened resources
- Generate location-specific reports to optimize asset placement and minimize unnecessary movement
- Monitor usage hours to reduce wear and tear, extend lifespan, and lower maintenance costs
- Provide zone-based insights to uncover idle assets and enhance resource allocation
- Track movement frequency to pinpoint bottlenecks, streamline operations, and reduce delays
- Identify peak usage periods to allocate assets effectively and ensure uninterrupted operations
Why Litum?
- Litum is at the forefront of location technologies for two decades, delivering healthcare solutions for a decade.
- Litum solutions have been deployed across 50+ countries, helping organizations keep their workforce safe and business productive by minimizing risks and maximizing safety and efficiency.
- Choosing Litum means opting for proven expertise and innovation. Our RTLS solutions are informed by global best practices, complex use cases, and thousands of on-site experiences.
- When it comes to healthcare, the ultimate goal is to improve the quality of care. Litum understands this deeply and has engineered Real-Time Location Systems to remove barriers to perfect care.
At the heart of Litum’s medical asset tracking solutions is Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology, offering sub-meter accuracy to meet the demands of complex healthcare environments. For facilities requiring flexibility, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is also available as a cost-effective alternative or complement to UWB.
This precise tracking capability ensures critical medical equipment is always where it’s needed, reducing delays and optimizing workflows. UWB’s accuracy is particularly vital in scenarios where quick access to equipment can make a difference in patient outcomes, while BLE provides scalable coverage for less demanding applications. Together, these technologies enhance operational efficiency, minimize asset losses, and support seamless healthcare delivery.
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FAQ
What is medical asset tracking RTLS?
Medical asset tracking RTLS is a real-time location system that monitors the location and status of medical equipment across a hospital or healthcare facility. It gives clinical and operational teams live visibility into where assets such as infusion pumps, wheelchairs, beds, and portable monitors are at any given time.
What medical equipment can be tracked with RTLS?
Any portable or mobile asset can be tagged and tracked. Common examples include infusion pumps, IV poles, ventilators, wheelchairs, stretchers, patient beds, defibrillators, ultrasound machines, and portable diagnostic devices.
How does medical asset tracking reduce costs?
Hospitals frequently over-purchase equipment because they cannot locate what they already have. RTLS reveals actual utilization rates across the fleet. This helps facilities right-size equipment inventory, reduce unnecessary rentals, and eliminate duplicate purchases. It also supports usage-based maintenance scheduling, which extends asset lifespan and reduces unplanned downtime.
How much time do nurses spend searching for equipment?
Studies consistently show that clinical staff spend between 30 minutes and 1 hour per shift searching for misplaced equipment. Medical asset tracking RTLS eliminates most of this search time by providing real-time location on a live map, freeing staff to focus on patient care.
Can RTLS help with medical equipment maintenance compliance?
Yes. The system tracks usage hours per asset, enabling maintenance teams to schedule servicing based on actual use rather than calendar intervals. This reduces both over-maintenance and the risk of equipment failure from under-maintenance. Historical location data also supports audit trails for compliance reporting.
Does medical asset tracking integrate with hospital systems?
Yes. Litum’s platform integrates with CMMS, EHR/EMR systems, and other hospital software so asset location and utilization data flows into existing maintenance and clinical workflows without requiring manual data entry.
How is RTLS medical asset tracking different from RFID?
RFID provides checkpoint-based identification, telling you when an asset passed a specific reader. RTLS provides continuous real-time location, showing you exactly where an asset is anywhere in the facility at all times. For clinical environments where immediate equipment location is critical, RTLS delivers significantly more operational value.
Can the same RTLS platform support other hospital use cases?
Yes. The same infrastructure supports infant security, staff duress, patient flow, wander management, and staff workflow monitoring, all without requiring separate systems for each use case.
What makes Dualis Tag different from other asset tracking tags?
Most tags ask you to accept a trade-off: either high location accuracy with frequent battery replacements, or long battery life with less precise positioning.
Dualis Tag is built to deliver both.
It combines sub-meter indoor location accuracy with multi-year battery life and a user-replaceable battery, so you are not constantly swapping hardware or accepting lower-quality location data.
How accurate is the location data?
Dualis Tag uses Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology for sub-meter indoor accuracy, meaning it can pinpoint an asset to within less than a meter.
For broader coverage across larger spaces or outdoor areas, it also uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). The two technologies work together to keep location data reliable wherever your assets go within your facility.
What kinds of assets and industries is Dualis Tag suited for?
Dualis Tag is well-suited for any environment where assets need to be tracked consistently over time. It is equally effective for tracking stationary items as well as assets in motion. Common use cases include:
- Manufacturing and industrial: tools, shared production equipment, returnable containers, work-in-progress materials
- Healthcare: mobile medical equipment such as infusion pumps, wheelchairs, monitors, and specialty beds
- Warehousing and logistics: pallets, racks, bins, and shared operational carts
- General facilities: high-value spare parts, calibration equipment, and other hard-to-find assets
If your team spends time searching for equipment, deals with asset loss or underutilization, or needs better visibility over how assets move through your facility, Dualis Tag is built for those challenges.
