July 2nd,
2003, West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Mobile technology
helps hospitals combat nursing shortage.
Hospitals see dramatic
reduction in on hand inventory costs and achieve
significant workflow efficiencies.
The nationwide shortage
of nurses has affected most of the healthcare
institutions. As healthcare institutions scramble
to address this situation, some hospitals are
using emerging technology to help ease the situation.
Numbers Only, Inc. a leading wireless applications
company based in North Brunswick, NJ is helping
hospitals implement innovative Mobile applications
to combat this situation.
"Our nurses were devoting
too much of their valuable time to tasks outside
of their core competency - tasking such as ordering
supplies" said Bill Grimes MMIS Manager
at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a 396-bed
hospital based in Lebanon, NH. In addition to
being an inefficient use of their skills, having
nurses handle ordering led to numerous inventory
management problems, the common being over stocking
and panic orders. Charged with removing the
burden of inventory ordering and management
from the nursing staff and reducing on-hand
inventory on the floors without making significant
increase in materials management staff, Bill
Grimes turned to Numbers Only, Inc.
Real Results in
Real Time
Dartmouth implemented the @Par Mobile Supply
Chain ExecutionÓ suite and achieved significant
reduction in on-hand inventories. “We
cut on-hand (costs) in some instances by over
50%…” said Bill Grimes. “The
savings we have realized has already offset
our entire investment in the solution - handheld
devices and software included.” With @Par
the department is able to take up responsibility
for more inventory locations with the same existing
staff as a result of more than 400% productivity
improvement.
"In terms of the solution’s
impact on the organization as a whole, we now
receive a more accurate, real-time look at usage
reports, which is helping drive savings through
contract compliance and product standardization.
And, most importantly, our nurses are able to
devote more time to patient care, secure in
the knowledge that the supplies they need will
be in the right place at the right time."
Numbers Only also announced
that two new hospitals have recently signed
an agreement to implement @Par Suite. Partners
Healthcare System and Scott & White Hospital
are implementing @Par to streamline processes,
reduce material handling errors, reduce inventory
costs, improve workflow efficiencies and provide
accurate real-time data needed to make critical
business decisions.
Scott & White Clinic
and Hospital, combined with the Scott &
White Health Plan, form one of the largest multi-specialty
group practices in the United States of America.
Partners HealthCare System, an integrated health
care delivery system, was formed in 1994 when
Massachusetts General Hospital joined with Brigham
and Women’s Hospital.
About Numbers Only,
Inc.
Numbers Only, Inc. is a leading Wireless Applications
Company headquartered in North Brunswick, NJ
with operations in North America, Asia, and
Africa. Numbers Only offers @Par a product that
mobile enables enterprise systems and helps
businesses mobile enable their staff.
