Denver Health Contracts with PanGo for Real-Time Asset Tracking

“In a large, fast-paced environment like ours, biomedical equipment is constantly being moved throughout the hospital to care for patients,” said Jeff Pelot, chief technology officer, Denver Health. “The ability to quickly locate, manage and maintain equipment is paramount to excellent patient care.”

Jeff Pelot, Chief Technology Officer
Denver Health

PanGo Integrates Active and Passive RFID to Deliver Industry’s Most Advanced Location Management Platform

“We waited until we found the right solution. Other approaches would have forced us to deploy single purpose exciters and redundant network equipment,” said Barbara West, Administrator of Emergency Medicine and Ambulatory Support Services at MetroHealth. “Resources are too valuable in healthcare to deploy systems and hardware that can’t be used across a multitude of applications.”

Barbara West, Administrator of Emergency Medicine and Ambulatory Support Services
MetroHealth

”We chose PanGo because they offered an 802.11 active RFID tag the size of a pager that we could attach to equipment, such as IV pumps, EKG devices, or ventilators, and then query those tags on our Wi-Fi network to find out where the assets are in real-time. This has resulted in procuring less equipment and improving overall efficiencies for the doctors—in fact, they’re now not spending 20% of their shift searching for devices.”

Dr. John Halamka, Chief Information Officer
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Care Group

Gary Bayston, Manager of Biomed Engineering, Rockford Memorial Hospital immediately recognized the ROI potential of real time asset tracking based on a recent study conducted throughout the hospital which determined that nursing, support services and Biomed spent a combined total of 7,760 minutes per month searching for lost mobile equipment. This translated to over $4,000 per day or $1,460,000 per year of lost productivity. The analysis also documented the frustration experienced by the staff from spending so much time searching for equipment.

“The proof of concept was a success and our nurses are clamoring for a hospital-wide implementation. The savings from productivity improvements alone will more than justify the system. The reduction in equipment rentals and lost assets just make the payback that much better.”

Gary Bayston, Manager of Biomedical Engineering
Rockford Memorial Hospital

“PanGo’s expertise in locationing technologies and the advanced monitoring and notification capabilities of the PanGo solution will allow us to further improve our personnel safety practices and are expected to contribute to additional cost benefits due to a more efficient asset and staff workflow,” said Marc Verbruggen, president, Toho Tenax America. “The safety of our employees is our number one priority. Leveraging location data to enhance our safety measures assists us to produce products with the highest level of quality and at the lowest possible cost, helping us to maintain a leadership position in the market.”

Marc Verbruggen, President
Toho Tenax America

PanGo Integrates Active and Passive RFID to Deliver Industry’s Most Advanced Location Management Platform

“Now that many businesses have figured out which sensory networks projects will deliver value, the next big hurdle for IT organizations is how to unify, secure, and manage all these sensory technology projects,” said Jeff Woods, Research Vice President at Gartner. “To meet this challenge, the sensory networks industry will intensely focus on helping users deploy enterprise class software architectures that support the strategic enterprise architecture. This will enable IT to simultaneously support business process innovation and reduce total cost of ownership.”

Jeff Woods, Research Vice President
Gartner

“Cisco reinforced its leadership in the market by introducing location awareness as a feature of the network. PanGo has extended the reach and value of this technology by integrating its industry leading active RFID product and creating a valuable solution for the market. The joint solution allows customers to leverage the same network for data, voice and now asset tracking while continuing to capitalize on the powerful security and network management capabilities our networks offer.”

Alan Cohen, Senior Director of Product Management
Wireless Business Unit
Cisco

“PanGo was the first to integrate with the Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance and now expands that value by leveraging the Application-Oriented Networking (AON) for RFID product to incorporate RFID passive tag data into their solution” said Stephen Cho, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing for Cisco's AON Business Unit. “We are enthusiastic about PanGo’s initiative to capitalize upon the network’s capabilities and further extend them, making it easier for customers to take advantage of both active and passive RFID technologies.”

Stephen Cho, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing
AON Business Unit
Cisco

“We are excited to be working with PanGo, a proven leader in the RTLS market, to implement the advanced location technologies available in our new System-on-Chip,” said John Gloekler, Chief Executive Officer and President of G2 Microsystems. “By combining Wi-Fi, active and passive RFID technology into a highly integrated solution, PanGo is helping companies build and implement cost-effective asset tracking solutions that enable real-time inventory visibility across their entire supply chain.”

John Gloekler, Chief Executive Officer
G2 Microsystems