| No longer just a place for patients to rest their | | | | software as one hot-button that may soon |
| heads before surgery or afterward in recovery, | | | | become a reality for the typical hospital and care |
| hospital beds are playing a more active role in | | | | centers. As designed, this software could let you |
| helping caregivers to treat their patients. More | | | | pinpoint the exact location of any bed in the |
| sophisticated bed models incorporate features | | | | facility along with its status. |
| that can assist caregivers in getting patients out | | | | One of the biggest issues facing hospitals today, |
| of bed, provide pulmonary therapy, sport | | | | because census is running very high, is making |
| built-in-scales, patient positioning features and | | | | sure they have the beds they need, when they |
| more. | | | | need them and where they need them. So we |
| These new hospital beds can help make the life | | | | are also looking at locating and tracking |
| of a nurse or caregiver easier, are safer for both | | | | technologies that allow you to locate that bed and |
| patient and caregiver and can even help patients | | | | equipment when you need it. Ultimately, efficiency |
| to recover, or move more quickly to lower-acuity | | | | with fewer nurses is the new trend for doctors. |
| care suites. If you want to know what future | | | | The bed is the point of connection with staff and |
| beds will look like just imagine them incorporating | | | | patients, thus the best quality bed is what we |
| all sorts of technological components centered on | | | | want to provide our hospitals. |
| gleaning information. Look to bed-tracking | | | | |