Community Care Asset Tracking2025-08-29T11:20:38+01:00

Enhancing Community Care with iAssets Tracking Solution

Enhance patient care and drive operational efficiency in community care settings

Enhance patient care and drive operational
efficiency in community care settings

Up to 30%

reduction in
equipment loss

25%

improvement in
care co-ordination

30%

fewer hospital
admissions through
preventative care

20%+

more syringe pumps
available for
palliative care

Smarter asset tracking for community care

Patients in community care often navigate complex pathways across multiple trusts and care settings. iAssets enables real-time tracking of essential medical equipment throughout this journey โ€“ ensuring devices are always available and in the right place whether urban or rural, even when care responsibility is shared. Real-time tracking also enables early intervention, helping to reduce hospital admissions.

Deployed over existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, or via BEL or GPS, and offered through a flexible pay-as-you-grow model, iAssets reduces over-procurement costs and wasted staff search time, lessens hospital reliance, and improves care delivery.

Use cases for community care asset tracking

Emergency & urgent care settings

Quickly locate high-demand equipment like IV pumps, CPAP machines, and monitors to avoid delays and ensure rapid response.

Specialist clinics

Track dialysis machines, syringe pumps, and mobility aids to support the delivery of specialised, high-quality care.

Maternity services

Ensure timely access to devices such as CTG machines and blood pressure monitors to support safe, effective maternal care.

Community-based care

Manage beds, kit bags, and mobile equipment to support both inpatient and home visits across community settings.

Rehabilitation and long-term support

Track crutches, therapy tools, and palliative care equipment to aid recovery and maintain comfort in extended care.

Patient transport

Monitor the location of trolleys, gurneys, and wheelchairs to streamline patient movement between care settings.

Remote monitoring and virtual wards

Ensure connected devices for home monitoring are available, allocated efficiently, and returned promptly for reuse.

Electrical and Biomedical Engineering (EBME) equipment compliance

Track and manage devices across sites to maintain compliance, support maintenance schedules, and reduce downtime.

Clinical sample and document tracking

Monitor the safe, timely movement of medical samples and track day forward folders to ensure patient records are accurate and accessible.

Environmental monitoring

Track temperature-sensitive items like vaccines, pharmacy stock, and blood products to ensure regulatory compliance.

Inventory management

Keep tabs on expiry dates, stock levels, and asset rotation in pharmacies, ambulances, and community stores.

Operational and IT asset tracking

Locate and manage laptops, tablets, and facilities equipment to support digital care delivery and operational efficiency.

Pay-as-you-grow: scalable tracking solutions

Whether youโ€™re a small community care provider or part of a larger network, iAssets offers flexible and scalable solutions. Start small and expand as your needs growโ€”our platform adapts to your unique requirements.

Technology-driven asset tracking for healthcare

Comprehensive, real-time tracking with flexible technology integration

iAssets supports multiple technologies to ensure you have the most accurate, real-time location of your equipment, from Wi-Fi, BLE, and RFID to GPS, ensuring reliable tracking in any healthcare setting.

Real Time Location Services (RTLS)

Flexible tracking technology designed to track anything, anywhere includes: BLE, Wi-Fi, GPS and hybrid tracking technology.

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Passive RFID

For healthcare asset tracking and management in dynamic, high-volume environments like hospital wards or outpatient clinics.

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Hybrid solution

Combine the strengths of RTLS and RFID in a flexible, scalable solution that grows with your healthcare environment and supports future demands.

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iRecords medical record management

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Letโ€™s improve your community care

Contact us to learn how iAssets can help streamline your community care operations, reduce costs, and improve patient care. We are here to support you every step of the way.

Testimonials

โ€œThe top benefits it delivers for us daily are time savings, better critical maintenance processes and more importantly, improved patient careโ€

Stuart Barton, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

โ€œiFIT has allowed us to make significant savings. Specifically, staff reduction, more efficient pulling, higher rates of found missing files and reduced temporary set creationโ€

Simon Clayton, St Georgeโ€™s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

โ€œiFIT has ensured that 98% of our records get to the appointment on timeโ€

Andrew Raynes, Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Partners and frameworks

We work with trusted partners and adhere to industry standards such as GS1 and Scan4Safety to ensure seamless integration and compliance. Explore our partner network and discover how we can help you implement iAssets in your community care setting.

Get in touch

Start improving community care today. Contact us to see how iAssets can streamline your operations, enhance care delivery, and ensure that your resources are always available when needed.


FAQs

iAssets facilitates the real-time tracking of valuable and essential community medical care equipment, which is crucial for ensuring that medical devices are consistently available and correctly placed throughout the patient’s journey. This tracking capability is especially important in community care settings where patients often navigate complex care pathways that involve multiple trusts and various care environments, and healthcare equipment is highly mobile.

iAssets is designed to tackle several key challenges in community care, including optimising equipment management. This means making equipment more readily available when and where it’s needed, efficiently tracking equipment for maintenance and servicing, and ensuring the timely return of equipment. For example, iAssets can track highly mobile and critical devices like BodyGuard T syringe drivers used in palliative care. It’s vital these are serviced and maintained, yet they are often lost after use due to their portable nature.

Beyond equipment management, iAssets also helps overcome financial constraints that lead to limited resources and staffing shortages. It addresses the complexities of delivering medical care in rural areas with limited access to timely services, accessibility restrictions for the ageing population, integration problems between community care services and hospitals, and technological barriers that hinder the adoption of new technologies.

The implementation of iAssets in community medical care facilities yields several proven benefits, such as supporting preventative care which reduces hospital admissions and enhances patient outcomes, and enabling effective virtual wards by ensuring essential equipment is available for remote patient monitoring. Furthermore, it facilitates efficient care pathways by minimising equipment loss, ensures timely access to equipment to reduce care delays, and enhances coordination across different care settings.

iAssets offers the ability to track a diverse array of community medical care assets, supporting various aspects of healthcare delivery. This includes equipment used in urgent treatment centres like IV pumps, patient transport resources such as wheelchairs, community beds and kit bags, specialist clinic equipment like dialysis machines, and maternity care devices. It also extends to rehabilitation and palliative care resources, biomedical equipment, clinical assets like medical samples, environmental monitoring for temperature-sensitive items, inventory management, operational assets, and document management tracking.

Yes, iAssets provides flexible and scalable solutions that are designed to accommodate the varying needs of different community care providers. Whether the provider is a small community care facility or a large network, iAssets can be adapted to start small and expand as their requirements evolve, and as a cloud-based solution, it can be easily scaled across ICS environments.

Tracking medical equipment significantly improves care coordination by ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently and workflows are streamlined across multiple settings where patients receive care. This is particularly vital because it supports continuous and comprehensive care pathways, which are essential when care responsibility is shared among various services and providers, and serviced/working equipment is available when and where it’s needed.

Supporting preventative care in community medical care is of paramount importance as it plays a key role in reducing hospital admissions and fostering better patient outcomes. By enabling timely tracking and management of medical equipment, healthcare providers can deliver proactive care more effectively, keeping patients healthier and reducing the need for more intensive, hospital-based interventions.

The effectiveness of virtual wards can be greatly enhanced by asset tracking, which ensures that essential medical equipment, such as oxygen devices and infusion pumps, is readily available. This availability facilitates remote patient monitoring, allowing for a reduction in hospital admissions while simultaneously maintaining high-quality care delivery.

Reducing equipment loss in community care settings translates to substantial financial benefits, primarily because it minimises the need for costly replacements of high-value medical devices. By preventing loss, healthcare providers can achieve significant cost savings and free up resources that can be directly reinvested into patient care.

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