Real time overview of staff and resources helps the doctors and nurses at The Regional Hospital of Horsens avoid unintentional interruptions and optimizes both patient flow and work environment

Cetrea A/S has delivered the clinical logistics real time overview solution that is implemented at the Regional Hospital of Horsens in Denmark.

Modern technology is key when efficiently improving hospital processes. Staff at The Regional Hospital of Horsens experience having more time for patient care after implementing the RTLS solution from Cetrea and Sonitor.

“The tracking works really well. We experience a lot less interruptions and less confusion in our daily work since the implementation of the system.” says the Chief Physician Ove Gaardboe at the Regional Hospital of Horsens.

The treatment of each patient involves a number of doctors and nurses who all need to be coordinated and kept up to date. With a quick look at strategically placed, large touch screen displays, staff can now locate each other without having to call around, disturbing others unnecessarily, in their search.

The locating solution is installed in work related rooms in the emergency ward. To protect the staff’s right to privacy, rooms that are not relevant are not covered and the location data is not stored.

Read the White Paper about the project here or watch the video explaining the project:

2011:

Red Herring Global Top 100 Winner

Red Herring Europe Top 100 Winner

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Winner of the Danish Product Design Award in the IT category for Cetrea Patient Ward. Hosted på Ing.dk

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2010:

Ernst and Young Entrepeneur of the Year 3. place award in the Start-Up category.

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2008:

The Golden Scalpel 2008 was awarded to Cetrea and Horsens Regional Hospital for the development of Cetrea Surgical. The award was presented by the Dansh Minister of Health.

Cetrea has been awarded with the Red Herring 100 Global award at the Red Herring award show in Los Angeles, USA.

Cetrea is hereby included in an exclusive international group of companies that are leading the technological development and are able to create an extraordinary growth despite the financial crisis.

Past Red Herring winners include companies like Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, salesforce.com and YouTube.

Red Herring Global is the culmination of a year's work of reviewing thousands of private companies from around the world. The candidates for this years final have been selected among the best companies from Red Herring's regional competitions in Europe, North America and Asia.

Cetrea CEO, Hans Erik Henriksen, says:
"We are extremely proud to be among the world's 100 most innovative companies. It shows that we have a product that creates awareness and demand internationally, and that we are able to outperform some of the world's leading companies when it comes to innovation and growth."

The Pediatric Acute Ward (Børnemodtagelsen) at Aarhus University Hospital Skejby went live with Cetrea Emergency 1st of November. After a short implementation process of only 4 weeks the staff was eager to begin working with their new unique Cetrea Emergency solution.

"The patients will wait less time and they will experience a more safe course of treatment" says Claus Sixtus Jensen, Pediatrics Nurse.

Now the nurses and physicians have access to more information and are able to optimize the work flow. We are happy to be a part of the Pediatrics Department's effort to provide the best care possible.

Dr Jason Leitch, director of the Department of Patient Safety and Quality in the Scottish Executive Health Department and advisor to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, visited the Regional Hospital of Horsens to share his experience on patient safety and quality.

Before Jason Leitch had to make presentations on patient safety and quality, Hospital Director Lisbeth Holsteen Jessen and Medical Director, Jorgen Kristensen Schøler showed him around the hospital. Here they talked with staff and he was given a presentation of the iHospital [popular name for Cetrea solution].

After having visited five different Danish hospitals Jason Leitch is impressed with the implementation of Cetrea products in Horsens:

"For me, the electronic system [in Horsens'] really improves the communication, it's very good for patient safety and for the quality. But it has not removed the human aspect - to be friendly and nice. And that's important."

Read more (danish sites):

http://www.regionmidtjylland.dk/Om%20Regionen/Aktuelt/Nyheder?docid=99350
http://www.cedi.dk/visNyhed.aspx?ID=13135