Specialty Software and Printers to Help with New Healthcare Needs Due to COVID-19

AMT Datasouth has products available to help healthcare providers meet needs associated with the constantly changing dynamics that COVID-19 presents: for both additional capacity and for serving patients with other needs as they start coming back to the hospital. As additional areas, locations, and equipment are being started or restarted and as new designations are created for patients, AMT Datasouth is ready to help hospitals meet those needs.

Their products have been used in well over 500 hospitals, including many Army Medical Department (AMEDD) locations and on the hospital ships USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy. 

What follows are a few examples of how these products can be used to address both COVID and NON-COVID needs.

Increased Number of Admissions/Intake Stations, New Testing Sites, and Additional Equipment and Devices

As areas are newly set up or restarted both within existing healthcare facilities and in new locations, more stations to print wristbands and labels are needed, especially if some areas are dedicated to COVID going forward while others are serving more traditional healthcare needs. We have several wristband and label printers available including:

• Hospital wristband printers
• Mobile wristband/label printers
• High volume label printers

The firmware in these printers accepts existing data streams without the need for the hospital IT staff to have to make a bunch of changes:

• Popular emulations like Zebra are included

• Proprietary firmware known as PAL® accepts any data stream to print the desired output 

• AMT Datasouth’s support team quickly sets up formatting specific to each healthcare location’s specific needs and can make changes to formats and layouts in the future as they arise (all of this can be done remotely) 

• Asset tags and other kinds of labels for the many ventilators and other machines, devices, equipment, and PPE brought in to address COVID-19 are easily done with our printers. This includes durable thermal transfer asset and inspection labels that last.

Easily Identify Status of Patients and Create New Layouts of Wristbands and Labels (Including Asset Tags) On-Demand

If special layouts or formats are needed that make a patient’s current testing status for COVID-19 obvious (positive, negative, tested but no results back, isolation, etc.) or for equipment (on loan status, PPE with expiration, etc.) then the PAL® firmware provides an ideal solution. It enables the AMT Datasouth support team to create these new layouts as described above. 

Or the hospital user can use the AMT Process 24/7 software to quickly and easily create new formats and layouts for wristbands and labels on their own whenever they need to.

More of a Need to Work Offline

If new offsite locations lack network capabilities or the same level of security that a hospital network provides, then AMT Process 24/7 is an ideal choice that alleviates those concerns as a non-network connected software product: 

• Admit patients and save the data on a desktop, laptop, or tablet

• Patient admissions data can be easily uploaded into the hospital’s system later

• Print labels and wristbands for asset tags, patients, testing centers, the lab, pharmacy, etc. utilizing either AMT Datasouth printers or Zebra and Zebra compatible printers

• Create wristband and label formats and layouts and modify them as needed using the virtual form designer

For More Info: 800-215-9192 or www.amtdatasouth.com