Automate and Orchestrate Equipment Flow
With Supply Chain Agent, hospitals can predict care pathways and equipment requirements; optimize how nurses and techs retrieve and receive devices; and ensure that devices are ready when and where they’re needed.
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Match Supply and Demand in Real Time
Analyze historical data and simulated care pathways to predict future needs; build a buffer to guard against shortages.
Forecast device usage and prepare accordingly
Prioritize impactful tasks; batch assignments so that nurses and techs are not running back and forth between buildings, wings, and hospitals.
Allocate equipment efficiently
Optimize maintenance and cleaning schedules in order to maximize asset usage and lifespan.
Improve equipment lifecycle and efficiency
Rebalance device fleets; identify and remove unnecessary rentals and purchases; and distribute hoarded stockpiles.
Rightsize supply and demand
Automatically route device requests to appropriate teams, and get a unified view of all in-flight tasks and device movements.
Manage requests effectively
Help nurses spend more time on patient care, not inventory management.
Less searching, more caring
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Join over 200K caregivers utilizing our Intelligent Orchestration solutions in hundreds of hospitals – from the nation’s largest networks to regional leaders.
An AI-driven hospital orchestration agent that predicts equipment demand and then directs inventory and work to the right place at the right time. In essence, Supply Chain Agent elevates RTLS from passive visibility to active execution.
Traditional RTLS is vital, but only shows current locations. SCA forecasts need, determines optimal placement, and triggers tasks or orders to move equipment and assign work. It pools resources across departments and hospitals, prioritizes device routing with metrics such as census, acuity, and length-of-stay risk. SCA also routes to Supply Chain, Biomed, EVS, and keeps humans in the loop for goals and approvals.
- Utilization up to 1.8x
- Equipment idle time down 80%
- Rentals down 75% via inter-facility load balancing
- Purchased fleet size down 60% through right-sizing
- Nurse search time down 80%
Illustrative impact: roughly $3M savings over 5 years; for IV pumps, a 200-bed hospital can save about $2,000 per bed per year in operating expenses (up to $3,000 per bed per year when capital right-sizing is included). Target price ~ $600 per bed per year.
SCA runs best when the hospital uses Kontakt.io Hospital 360 Location Services, tags all in-scope assets and staff across Supply Chain, EVS, Biomed, and nursing, and connects through compatible access points such as Kontakt.io Portal Lights, Cisco, or Juniper Mist. An EMR integration can be added to feed richer demand signals for fully predictive orchestration. Operationally, the health system designates one hospital as a depot, assigns staff to shuttle equipment between hospitals and within each facility, and clarifies ownership across Supply Chain, EVS, and Biomed so that nurses request equipment rather than retrieve it.