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As we enter the peak of Influenza and COVID-19 vaccine season, so does the importance to ensure the safe transport, delivery and storage of these critical preventative medications. It’s the time of year when all of us are thinking about protecting ourselves and our most vulnerable from the potential risks of infection from flu and COVID-19 variants.

The Altru Clinic - Crookston had been working with an outdated patient experience model. With the shift of healthcare moving to ambulatory and outpatient services, Altru invested into the physical layout of the clinic and technology to prepare for the next era in care. The reliance on static data prevented the clinic from being able to identify all the gaps, causing missed hand-offs and wasted time in operational workflows.

If you have wondered what the value of RTLS real-time and historical reports are when you already have access to some of this information through your existing nurse call system, then you are not alone.

On average, 57 nurses are assaulted every day in the U.S. That's two nurses attacked every hour, according to a Press Ganey analysis using data from 2022. Press Ganey's National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators revealed that in the 3-month period from April to June, an equivalent of 5,217 assaults occurred at the 483 included facilities.

The National Institute of Mental Health has reported that rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse and other stress-related symptoms have increased significantly during the pandemic. As a result, our healthcare workers are experiencing stress in unprecedented ways as they manage and care for patients during the third year of the pandemic.

As we continue to see the stress on medical facilities, the need for behavioral health care services is also on the rise. Reports of people with symptoms of anxiety, depression, started or increased substance use, and stress-related symptoms, have almost doubled compared to prior to the pandemic.

Limiting the spread of infectious disease continues to be one of the greatest challenges in a hospital, clinic, and senior living facility. In settings where residents, patients, and staff come in contact with others, minimizing the spread of COVID-19, along with variants of COVID-19, continues to be a significant focus for everyone worldwide.

If your staff members frequently find themselves running out of certain assets or pieces of equipment they need, having a PAR level system creates a newfound advantage.

Are healthcare facilities putting enough energy into ensuring their own employees are safe and relatively stress-free?

In the world of healthcare, the quality of service received by patients can vary greatly depending on an abundance of factors. Systems such as ZulaFly’s Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) is engineered to provide the data, information, and alerts that help answer important questions for those seeking to gain an edge within the walls of their hospital or clinic.

When business is moving at a rapid pace and your bottom line is bursting, it can be easy to get caught up in the excitement of acceleration and lose track of more mundane–but still critical–tasks such as inventory management.

Limiting the spread of infectious disease is one of the greatest challenges in a hospital, clinic and senior living facility. In a setting where residents or patients can come in contact with others, minimizing the spread of COVID-19 is a significant focus for everyone world-wide.

ZulaFly, a leading provider of patient workflow, staff safety, asset management, and environmental monitoring technologies, today announced that University of Utah Health has signed on for a multi-phase deployment.

ZulaFly, a leading provider of patient workflow, staff safety, asset management and environmental monitoring software, today announced that Altru Health System is using ZulaFly’s data analytics software for real-time location services (RTLS) to modernize its patient-centric operations.

ZulaFly, a leading provider of real-time data gathering systems, today announced its partnership with Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center (MSLCC) of Bismarck, North Dakota. MSLCC is a 258-bed, long-term care facility that has been providing care for more than 50 years.

Is your organization developing and evolving winning strategies that help you leave the playing field as a champion? Do you understand your staff members in a way that you can put them in the best position to win? Do you know the availability and utilization of your assets in a way that they can be the most productive between the lines of your business?

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, opens this week’s HIMSS with a powerful line-up of new and recently-announced strategic collaborations and solutions that are fueling the healthcare IoT.

In today’s healthcare industry, utilizing new technologies to prevent crime may seem like a no-brainer – and for good reason. Numerous technological advances exist that can help implement new safety protocols in your business more easily, making your daily workflow function more efficient, and offer better safety solutions that provide a more comfortable atmosphere for workers and patients alike. Still, many facilities don’t take the leap to implement new technology for a variety of reasons.

What is the primary question the word ‘workflow’ is meant to answer for an organization? For ZulaFly, that question goes something like this: Where are people or things spending time?

Healthcare’s relationship with patients hasn’t changed significantly in decades. A recent study notes that 88 percent of patients still pick up the phone to schedule appointments and interact with their provider, whereas booking travel arrangements and ordering a pizza has only 20 percent of customers using the telephone.

Safety. Security. Confidence. Freedom. If these words describe the atmosphere surrounding the staff and residents of your senior living facility, your organization has discovered how to operate a reputable center.

The holiday season has emerged, and as often occurs this time of year, we find ourselves reflecting on an abundance of things to be thankful for. At ZulaFly, we feel especially grateful to be developing Real-Time Locating System software, as we believe in the benefits and bottom-line boosting characteristics it contains.

How many different safety and security systems are running in your healthcare care facility at once? If you really think about it, this can quickly become a lengthy list.

Temperature-monitoring systems are of vital importance to a vast number of industries, perhaps none more critical than healthcare. With blood and tissue among the items being preserved in cold storage, maintaining the correct temperature in fridges and freezers can literally be a life-or-death matter.

We are right in the middle of one of our favorite times of year at ZulaFly… Football season. As we follow our favorite teams throughout the coming months, each team’s total wins and losses will be largely predicated on their ability to make quality in-game adjustments.

What does inefficiency look like in your healthcare organization? What are some of the frustrations it can cause? In many cases, inefficiency happens when reactive events occur that could have been avoided if a proactive approach was taken.

Each year, there are numerous technological investments large organizations make in the name of improving the bottom line and growing the business. How does an investment in Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) help achieve this goal?

In any good business, this is what employers want to create within their workplace. There are many aspects in which employers or business owners can create success within their teams. One common way is to do a time and motion study.

In a healthcare or pharmaceutical environment, there are many instances where assets and supplies must be stored at a specific temperature or within a certain range. When storing critical assets and supplies in such a setting, it is necessary to monitor storage temperature to meet various compliance requirements.

How are you keeping track of assets within your organization? Are you losing time and money each year due to lost or missing equipment? ZulaFly, a software company based out of Fargo, ND, is changing the way you track assets within and outside your facility.