Frequently Asked Questions
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What are the product benefits within hospitals?
Financial Benefits
In hospitals, dealing with Hospital Acquired Infections creates a lot of costs. Around 20% of beds are occupied by patients overstaying because they acquired an infection in hospital. Reducing the spread of infection therefore creates significant cost savings. An independent Health Economic Model of our solution showed that there is a 10x return on investment every year from operating the solution. Enough of the savings are in-cash cashable savings to pay for the installation within the year.
Bed availability
Within hospitals, excess bed days are a major problem. By preventing infections spreading, extra bed days are created. A 25% reduction in infection rates would translate into around 7,000 extra beds. To put that in context, this is the same as the estimated extra beds required by the NHS over the next decade.
Patient Harm Reduction
Infection creates significant patient harm. By preventing the spread of infection patient harm would be reduced
Staff Sickness Reduction and Wellbeing
Staff also catch infections in their workplace so reducing the infection rates would reduce staff sickness. And staff often have vulnerabilities, or care for vulnerable loved ones at home. Our system can operate to be similar to a “dose meter” – e.g. tell people how much exposure they have received, or highlight areas of the hospital that vulnerable staff should avoid.
Pandemic Preparedness
A robust means of prevent infection spread is vital for a healthcare facility to continue to operate successfully in times of infectious disease emergency
Sustainability and Net-Zero Carbon
Large quantities of single use plastics are consumed in the form of Personal Protective Equipment. Reducing infection rates reduces the demand for PPE. And overstaying patients increase the need for visitors to drive to hospitals to visit loved ones.
Pays for Real Time Location Services (RTLS)
Hospitals often wish to use RTLS for other use cases (asset tracking, AI learning models, wayfinding, etc). But the business case for these use case is not a strong as for reducing infection. By installing Proxximos’ solution, the hospital gains an RTLS that can unlock these other use cases.
Future proof
The system is effective against communicable diseases in general, not just Covid-19. If is therefore a strategic investment in business continuity in the event of future infectious disease outbreaks or bad flu seasons, etc