With a high number of patients, staff and assets constantly on the move, hospitals can be chaotic and inefficient.
Boulder-based startup Repp Health announced this week that it has launched a tracking solution developed specifically to help hospitals more efficiently manage its most important people and assets.
Repp Health CEO and co-founder David Sachs said the company, founded in 2018, has been focused on bringing increased productivity and efficiency to the hospital landscape.
“The challenge we’ve been focusing on is, there’s been no productivity gain within healthcare over the last decade,” he said. “We need to accelerate the pace of care.”
Repp Eo provides precise X,Y coordinates similar to GPS that generates room-level accuracy for patients, assets and staff.
The service can quickly locate staff and patients, while also monitoring how long a patient has been waiting for care and provide real-time alerts.
Sachs said Repp Eo will also provide insights on how to better optimize care, tracking staff movement to generate a better plan.
“We’re looking specifically at how caregivers move through the organization, so we can better design the workflow so it’s more efficient and they don’t have to travel as far to take care of the patient. This helps to reduce burnout,” he said.
Repp Eo utilizes ultra-wideband technology for tracking, requiring a limited on-premise footprint along with secure cloud-based data processing. Sachs said unlike traditional, more expensive location services, Repp Eo doesn’t need to have sensors in each room to provide room-by-room accuracy.
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The company currently has seven full-time employees, primarily based in Boulder, and has been bootstrapped to this point. Sachs said the company will look to bring on outside investment only if it opens doors and can create partnerships in the healthcare space.
Following the launch of Repp Eo, Sachs said the company has had a series of proof-of-concept projects across the country that they’ll continue to support and release case-studies on.
“It's time for healthcare to synchronize and accelerate,” he said. “Increasing the efficiency and utilization of assets and people will improve patient satisfaction and drive costs down.”
