Healthcare Solutions

Patient Positive Identification

SATO has been involved in the development of straightforward, fail-safe positive patient identification systems for over two decades, working with healthcare organisations to produce patient ID wristbands that are fit for specific environments and stay durations.

The demands of the care environment require precision matching of specimens, records and patients 24 hours per day, 365 days a year. SATO patient positive identification solutions guarantee peace of mind for healthcare workers ensuring the right patients are receiving the right care, with precision and accuracy.

SATO understands that there is no one-size-fits all solution to ensuring patient comfort and safety and that’s why its developed six patient ID wristband solutions for optimum flexibility delivering error-free, accurate identification data.

The SATO patient ID wristband range includes solutions for long-stay patients, utilising soft and durable, environmentally friendly materials and thermal transfer printing technology to ensure lasting, high-quality printed data. In addition, there is a cost-effective range of direct thermal printable wristbands that offer many of the same benefits as the premium range but are more suited to patients staying up to one week in hospital.

SATO has also developed economical options for short-stay patients and outpatients, with convenience in mind. And last but not least, SATO offers customisable high-performance RFID wristbands and laser-ink-jet-printed sheets for customers wishing to use their existing printers.

Full pack solution	TT line wristband	DT line wristband	Eco line wristband	Laser line wristband	RFID line wristband

Patient Safety

SATO printing solutions… the right medication to the right patient at the right time!

SATO understands the critical nature of patient safety in the healthcare environment and designs bespoke technology solutions to help providers ensure accurate real-time information is available on patients, samples, records and assets 24 hours a day.

From wristband and label printers to scanners and software, SATO offers a comprehensive portfolio of auto identification and data collection solutions to meet the many demands of the busy healthcare facility.

PATIENT REGISTRATION AND DISCHARGE

SATO believes that patients should be well taken care of from the moment they step into a healthcare environment. As such, as little time as possible should be spent on administrative paperwork. With this belief, SATO has created a total solution - hardware, plus consumables and services - to help minimise the registration process for healthcare facilities. SATO’s solutions include patient ID labels, wristbands, bedside labels and visitor labels

ADMISSION, DISCHARGE AND TRANSFER

At the point of patient registration, a wristband is printed with information that is both human and machine readable, which can be embedded with any number of the patient’s unique identifiers.

The use of linear and 2D barcode technology on patient wristbands enables Barcode Point of Care (BPOC) systems to verify patient identification before administering medications, processing diagnostic procedures or simply transporting the patient to another part of the hospital. Barcoding may also be used to create easily tracked print-on-demand forms at the point of registration. These may include patient fact sheets, consent forms and living will documents.

SATO printers can interface with virtually any hospital information system or admission system to print wristbands on demand at the time of admission, as well as integrate seamlessly with hospitals’ Admissions, Discharge and Transfer (ADT) applications for easy-to manage implementation.

PATIENT CONSULTATION

SATO’s aim is to eliminate all manual recording of a patient’s medical history. The common practice of recording a patient’s condition manually, sometimes result in illegible or lost records. This poses a real and potential risk to the safety of patients in the medical environment. SATO’s solution is to automate the storage and information upkeep process. This enables a more agile and systematic approach to the process and allows patients’ records to be accessed more effectively.

BEDSIDE LABELLING

Patient safety is greatly improved by using the SATO mobile printing solution to appropriately label the sample collection container at the patient bedside. Clinical processes are subject to human error and the SATO barcode point of care provides critical double checks to ensure patient safety for applications such as bedside respiratory therapy treatment and dietary management.

PATIENT EVENT TRACKING

SATO provides a combination of technologies to deliver effective patient event tracking. From antibacterial ID wristbands, available in a range of sizes that are soft, comfortable to wear and latex-free, to electronic scanning of high capacity barcodes to produce positive associations between patient, drugs and tissue samples, SATO ensures that accurate, real-time information is made available in the healthcare environment to manage data across the network of activity.

Accurate and clear label information can be printed beside the patient with date and time recording, eliminating the risks inherent in hand-written labels, and accurate drug labelling, tracking and dispensing systems can be assured.

Finally, SATO understands the importance of hygiene and cleanliness in patient safety. SATO provides a range of antibacterial encased printers that produce clear and resilient images on labels and wristbands while reducing cross-contamination and infections.

THE CLINIC PRINTING SOLUTION

Healthcare clinics often use a broad range of printed materials from wristbands to labels. To cater to this, SATO knows they often have to procure printers for different uses and a wide range of consumables from multiple suppliers. This results in higher costs in administration, inventory management, complexity and maintenance from the multiple suppliers.

Over 50% of SATO healthcare customers indicate that the they would prefer to use a flexible, multi-purpose printer. As a total solutions provider and in response to these needs, SATO provides its clinic customers with a complete package, including the compact SATO WS2 printer that prints both patient wristbands and labels from one device.

This SATO full solution can be deployed through the various stages of the supply chain from clinical labs to pharmacies, medical check-up centres, clinics and hospitals. Delivering fast, efficient wristband and label printing, this total solution saves time and waste for all healthcare professionals. In addition, SATO can recommend a suitable scanning solution to ensure all barcodes are properly captured and processed during the care process.

The SATO WS2 barcode printer is compact and space saving and extremely easy to use, improving efficiency in the fast-paced clinic environment.

Supplied with the DT wristband, the full pack solution provides a one-stop answer to delivering patient identification safety with no hassle and no waste.

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Medical Devices Management

With an aging population in many mature economies, healthcare costs are rising dramatically around the world. In addition, all healthcare organisations need to keep a vast variety of medical supplies to meet the broad needs of their patients which places heavy demands on inventory control.

Governments and healthcare authorities alike are seeking ways to minimise costs, drive down waste and optimise efficiency through careful assessment of products, processes and people in their organisations.

Optimisation of inventory and prevention of waste in the medical and pharmaceutical supply chain is now key to hospital budget management and cash flow.

Whether state or privately-owned healthcare organisations, the pressure on budgets is greater than ever and managers are seeking ways to reduce costs, while continuing to operate effectively and manage patient safety and care.

Having the ability to accurately track and trace medicines, medical devices, equipment and hospital assets, real time 24 hours a day, provides greater insight to the clinical inventory and helps drive efficiency, as well as minimise errors.

SATO, a leading provider of auto identification and data collection technology solutions for the healthcare sector, partners providers to deliver streamlined, tailored print and labelling solutions, utilising barcoding and RFID technology, to enable real-time visibility of the hospital situation to enable managers to optimise their decision making, as well as their bottom line.

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Pharmaceuticals Management

The pharmaceutical and medical sectors are renowned for their complexity and scale of regulation. High national and international standards for quality, safety and process accuracy reflect the acute responsibility the sectors hold for patients; the consequences of getting it wrong can be disastrous, including the loss of life.

The pharmaceutical sector is a global industry today with worldwide supply chains, manufacturing networks and markets. This leads to more legislative control emerging to ensure patient safety as complexity grows and visibility of supply chains deteriorates.

The GS1 System of Standards has been established to improve supply chain efficiencies in numerous sectors, including pharmaceuticals. The use of the standard in healthcare is designed to increase patient safety, drive supply chain efficiency and improve, in particular, the traceability of medicines.

SATO, as a leading label and printing technology provider to the healthcare sector, offers a range of GS1 compliant barcode solutions to meet the exacting needs of this important industry. GS1 barcodes and standards help to address the foundational challenges healthcare providers face and deliver greatly improved patient safety and cost-saving operational efficiencies.

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