Location-Enabled Workflow Management
Facilitating smooth and efficient workflow is an important element of every business process. It requires orchestrating the flow of people, supporting resources and information in a timely manner so that decisions can be made and actions taken.
Given today’s highly mobile workforce, knowing the location of people and the tools they need to do their job is increasingly critical. Organizations that can get the right people, the right information and the right tools in the right place at the right time have a significant competitive advantage. Providing relevant, timely and useful location and context information to the people and systems responsible for managing business process workflow provides a number of significant benefits:
- Make quick, informed decisions based on real-time business information
- Improve staff and customer workflow
- Improve overall productivity and throughput
- Meet industry and/or government mandates and regulations
Location-enabled workflow management can enable more efficient workflow across a variety of market sectors. Examples include:
Healthcare
Hospitals are constantly striving to speed throughput and reduce patient wait times. This is a difficult challenge given the fast-paced and often chaotic nature of healthcare environments. By marrying accurate and timely patient/staff location data with other patient status information and applying tailored business rules, hospital workflow can be greatly improved. Furthermore, clinical staff can spend more time with patients and less time dealing with coordinating administrative tasks. The result: higher patient safety, shorter wait times and more focused and productive clinical staff.
Manufacturing
In process and chemical manufacturing facilities, knowing the location of workers and hazardous materials is critical to ensuring safety. Location-enabled workflow management allows manufacturers to account for workers who operate in secure or hazardous areas, and better respond when emergencies occur.
Whether you are an organization needing to location-enable workflow or a vendor looking to integrate location information from best-in-class RTLS and RFID technologies into your workflow management system, InnerWireless offers a solution that meets your needs. |
