Keeping a hospital financially strong without jeopardizing the environment of care can be a daunting task.
Up to
30%
By spending less on operations, you may adversely affect the most important elements of your healthcare
business — patient and staff satisfaction and revenue. Poor facility performance and equipment failure could
result in lower quality metrics, severely disrupted clinical processes, and compromised safety.
To meet this challenge, you need a partner with the proven experience, capabilities, and industry expertise to ongoing utility
make a difference for your facility. From design to technology integration and deployment, Schneider Electric™ savings that can be
is your partner of choice.
achieved based on
EcoStruxure™ solution for Healthcare will integrate the healthcare facility infrastructure to provide continuous how the hospital is
analysis, commissioning, and maintenance for optimal system operation. We will help you create a sustainable
designed and built.
cycle of lower operating costs, improved clinical outcomes, enhanced safety, and increased equipment reliability.
25%
of a building’s
Properly designed and executed, EcoStuxure
for Healthcare combines information technology
and infrastructure to design a hospital around
interoperability.
Operating
75%
period
of a building’s
life cycle cost
is operational.
71.8%
Mechanical Services
To find and drive efficiencies, healthcare facilities The energy management life cycle
need to adopt an energy management life cycle plan addresses:
approach to their energy use. With the average > Sustainability
age of a hospital in the U.S. at 27 years, and the > Energy procurement
industry having a reputation of stretching facility life > Power reliability and metering
cycles, an energy management life cycle approach > Infrastructure and efficiency
prepares facilities, and the organizations that own > Measurement and reporting
them, for long-term operating success.
The complexity of running a hospital requires its Through the combination of a converged IP
facility management infrastructure to be dynamic, network and open communications protocols, the
flexible, and aligned to respond rapidly to changes Integrated Control Platform functionally integrates
within the healthcare environment. A lack of core mechanical, electrical, information and
interoperability between existing facility systems and communication technology, and security systems
stand-alone technologies results in lower operational into a single, intelligent control system. This seamless
performance and patient satisfaction challenges. integration ensures optimal operation with clear,
actionable information, allowing staff to quickly
As the nucleus of EcoStruxure solution for Healthcare, and accurately analyze and respond to events to
an Integrated Control Platform helps you improve provide the most efficient, comfortable, and secure
interoperability, efficiency, and overall patient care. environment possible.
Intrusion
As the nucleus
Video
Detection of EcoStruxure
Access Fire Safety
Control solution for
Healthcare, the
Lighting Visitor Integrated Control
Management
Platform improves
operational
performance and
Critical Power Intercom
Management patient care by
bringing together
Integrated
Control Platform a large variety of
different hospital
Energy Biometrics
Management systems into a
single, intelligent
control system.
Building Elevator
Management
Your facility’s infrastructure is a key component in supporting your organization’s healthcare mission.
Each division of infrastructure functions to bind your physical environment to clinical outcomes — to
provide safe, comfortable, and reliable environments for quality patient care, while ensuring the financial
viability of the organization.
The following infrastructure areas are united together via the Integrated Control Platform to create a fully
integrated healthcare facilities infrastructure:
> Mechanical systems
> Electrical systems
> Information and communications technology (ICT) systems
> Security systems
For improved facility efficiency, the Integrated Control Platform serves as the single, simple, consolidated
technology interface to ensure the facility is performing against design and baseline profiles, notifying
staff of anomalies and presenting actionable energy data to help facility managers make more informed
building decisions. Improved clinical efficiencies are realized by consolidating workflows and automating
tedious record-keeping practices.
EcoStruxure
Facilities
REGULATORY solution forPATIENT
Infrastructure
SIMPLIFICATION Healthcare.
AND STAFF SAFETY
Energy Management Life Cycle
An integrated healthcare facilities infrastructure.
ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY ENERGY PROCUREMENT
Business Values
Functional Areas
White REGULATORY SIMPLIFICATION PATIENT AND STAFF SAFETY
POWER RELIABILITY
Space and Office and Research/Laboratory Dietary
AND REPORTING
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Mechanical
ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY Electrical
ENERGY PROCUREMENT
PATIENT SATISFACTION
FINANCIAL
Mechanical Electrical
SATISFACTION
ANDPERFORMANCE
Pharmacy Parking
ICU/CCU Psychiatrics
Infrastructures
METERING
Blood /Tissue Bank Patient Area — Triage
Isolation Security ICT Outpatient Area
PATIENT
ICU/CCU Psychiatrics
L&D and NICU Emergency Room Radiology Imaging Nuclear Medicine
Isolation Security ICT Outpatient Area
INFRASTRUCTURE
STAFF PRODUCTIVITYANDAND
EFFICIENCY
RETENTION
The Integrated Control Platform yields efficiency and business value by simplifying operation in normally
complex areas of a hospital. Clearly defined integration use cases help organizations increase and maintain
energy savings, simplify regulatory compliance, improve patient experience and staff productivity, and
enhance safety and security.
> Total Environment Management — monitors > E mergency Power Supply Systems (EPSS)
critical parameters, such as access, temperature, Testing — automates the periodic testing and
humidity, and pressurization for key environments reporting of facility generators and automatic
that are heavily regulated by local, state, and transfer switches (ATS) to meet regulatory
federal codes, including but not limited to: requirements, and ensures backup power is
available when needed. The Integrated Control
• Blood Bank/Tissue Storage Refrigerators
Platform records and archives numerous
• Pharmacy Refrigerators and Freezers
parameters during the test process, including
• Laboratory Refrigerated Storage
waveforms of critical equipment, generator engine
• Operating Theater
parameters, electrical parameters from generators
• Catheterization Laboratory
and ATS, engine start times, and ATS transfer times.
• Central Sterile Processing and Sterile Supply
• Airborne Infectious/Protective Environment
Isolation and Anteroom > O perating Theater Environment and Isolated
• L abor and Delivery Room Power — permits critical systems to remain online
• IV PREP in a hazardous current situation. As operating
• Endoscopy/Bronchoscopy theaters are now classified as wet areas under
• Dietary Refrigerators and Freezers the updated National Fire Protection Association
• ETO Sterilizer Space (NFPA) 99 Standard for Health Care Facilities,
• Emergency Department Decontamination Areas isolated power systems offer an invaluable
• Nuclear Medicine advantage in the surgical setting. The Integrated
• Telecommunications Service Entrance Control Platform monitors hazard current and
Room, Technology Equipment Center, and generates alarms if levels exceed preset thresholds
Technology Distribution Rooms without disconnecting the electrical circuit. These
alarms can be shown on local displays, at the
Using detailed audit trails and enforced operator nurses station, or on the facility staff’s mobile devices.
responses, the Integrated Control Platform maintains
a complete archive of all system events, consolidated
into a single reporting structure for effortless search
and retrieval.
> Patient Room Control — allows patients to with the Integrated Control Platform adds value
directly control their individual microclimates, by noting if tagged assets or patients are outside
including temperature, room and task lighting, of their defined areas and alerting security staff to
and mechanical window shading, using a the event, queuing cameras for video surveillance
pillow speaker, integral or boom-mounted and locking down areas if required.
bedside terminal, or integration to the patient
entertainment system and room television. The > W ireless Tablet Applications — Clinical work
Integrated Control Platform communication is flow information from the Integrated Control Platform
accomplished through either a hardwire interface that is natively available to these can be supported
to the HVAC control system or through wireless through mobile applications. Information such as
routers used as part of the intelligent bed asset and staff locations, patient room occupancy,
management system. Additional interfaces can temperature, humidity, space pressurization, power
be expanded to incorporate asset management, quality, power availability, medical gas status, and
real-time location system interoperability, room security alerts can be easily sourced to these
sanitation status, and alarming. applications. These Web services are supported
with authentication, audit trail, and security, and
> Real-Time Location System (RTLS) — are flexible across numerous operating platforms.
provides accurate location information for They are scalable to support performance across
patients, infants, staff, and assets using Wi-Fi® multiple buildings on a campus or an enterprise-
signals and RFID tags to quickly locate medical level healthcare organization.
equipment, reduce the risk of infant abduction,
and protect against patient wandering. Integration
Air Quality/
Contamination
Smoke Detection
Staff Base HMI
Temperature
Humidity
Touch Pad
Interface
- Internet
- Telephone
- TV/Radio
- Room Control Nurse Call
- Lighting Control
- Auto Blinds
Daylight Control
> Hand Hygiene — The Integrated Control Platform will monitor, manage, and
document hand hygiene within patient areas. If staff, patients, or visitors enter or
leave the room without using the sanitizer, a visible and audible warning will be
issued to the device and a violation recorded in the Integrated Control Platform.
Proper uses and violations are logged in the system to show compliance with
infection control policies for the department.
> Data Closets and Rack Security — The Information and Communications
Technology infrastructure is typically decentralized with a data closet on each
floor of every wing. With the Integrated Control Platform, security for the room
and the data rack can be managed with a single card. The simple process of
opening the door on the rack can send alerts with video monitoring to both the
security center as well as IT. This same equipment can also provide monitoring
of temperature, humidity, and power.
As your energy expert and full-service partner, Schneider Electric provides end-to-end support from building
conceptualization through technology integration. Our industry-leading technologies and systems integration
expertise, in combination with our deep understanding of high-performance healthcare facilities, are proven
to deliver solutions that address your business, environmental, and regulatory challenges. We help you
achieve sustainable savings that decrease operating expenses and boost your bottom-line performance.
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