“The objective was to reduce the amount of time that staff members spent searching for items, as well as ensure that excess inventory is not ordered to replace assets thought missing that were, in fact, onsite. A recall of IV pumps, of which Geisinger had hundreds, required that every pump within its facilities be located and replaced—a very laborious process. We had to take all of them out of the system…to have an event of this magnitude going on, without RTLS, is very time-consuming. We had a flurry of activity around it. If the IV pumps had been RFID-tagged the process would have been considerably easier, since personnel could simply have searched for all of the pumps in the software and then be directed to each. During the selection process, the Geisinger team liked [CenTrak’s] hybrid solution…and the fact that the technology would not be using the Wi-Fi system to transmit data. The location information is what we are after,’” Capatch states. “It is the workflow from end-of-use to ready-to-use we can’t manage today…when fully integrated, [the system] will notify logisticians that a particular pump is ready to be cleaned once it is placed within the designated ‘dirty location,’ and the logisticians will then clean the pumps and distribute them to the areas with the lowest clean par levels.”