Daniel Tubbs Francis Doligosa Brian Easton Jason Sadler Latricia Simon Joseph Williams

1. Daniel Tubbs Francis Doligosa Brian Easton Jason Sadler Latricia Simon Joseph Williams

2. The STATag Solutions for Real-Time Equipment Tracking

3. Problem • Hospitals need to reduce costs to increase profitability • From 1997 to 2001, spending on hospital care increased by $83.6 Billion • Hospital gross margins have declined annually every year since 1997

4. Solution The use of Real-Time Equipment Tracking (RTET) with STATags will: • Reduce man hours searching for needed equipment • Increase staff efficiency • Improve equipment utilization

5. Market Analysis Our target market is US hospitals: • Hospitals: 5,794 • Total Registered Beds: 975,962 • Estimated mobile medical equipment in US: Approximately 5 Million • Potential future market: International hospitals

6. Market Analysis (continued) • Hospital equipment is very expensive and highly mobile • Equipment tracking is a large problem that causes: • Time consuming equipment searches • Unnecessary equipment purchases • Initial target price: < $20.00 per tag

7. Objective Create a Real-Time Equipment Tracking system that increases staff efficiency and allows hospitals to reduce operating costs

8. STATag Cons • More expensive setup than RFID or Barcode • Requires periodic battery replacement and calibration • Accuracy degrades slowly over time

9. STATag Pros • Less expensive than Real-Time Locating System • Eliminates labor intensive and error prone manual inventories • Instantly locates any tagged equipment • Detects tag removal, minimizing theft • Versatile report generation

10. STATags will: • Use “Dead Reckoning” to determine current location • Use network security • Self-discover & self-configure network • Handle large quantities of equipment

11. STATags will (continued): • Activate Alarms • Store historical location and usage data • Run without intervention for long periods • Battery lasts 5-7 years • Need calibration only when battery is changed

12. STATags will not: • Prevent theft • Collect or transmit personally identifiable health information (covered under HIPAA) • Communicate further than 100 feet between STATags

13. Individual STATag

14. STATag Network

15. Technical Issues • Component Selection • Size/Cost inverse relationship • Battery life and low power consuming components • Balance between accuracy and cost • Simplify design

16. Resource Issues • Need an electrical engineer for final design • Outsource manufacturing • In-house software development • Data collection/Database • Web based user Interface • Startup capital • Prototype testing

17. Management Issues • This technology has great potential • Conducted interviews that represent: • Hospital staff and hospital management • Civilian and Naval hospitals • Technical project manager with NASA and Lockheed Martin experience • Currently pursuing contacts with additional hospitals and Harris Communications

18. Team Distribution

19. Major Risks • Interference with hospital monitoring equipment • Conflicts with other 2.4 GHz networks • 802.15.4 and ZigBee are new standards and therefore there maybe unknown issues

20. Conclusion • Hospitals are doing more business, but making less profit • STATag use allows hospitals to lower costs by: • Freeing staff to treat patients • Minimizing unnecessary equipment purchases • Hospitals need STATags