Drastically Reduce Incidents With A Patient Wandering System
Strike the Right Balance Between Patient Safety and Freedom with Our Advanced Patient Wandering System
AiRISTA’s Sofia platform with wander management enables healthcare staff and family members to easily view patient status and location in real time. It provides defined geofence boundaries and immediate notification of entry, exit, and dwell time, delivering an immediate and accurate location of patients when events occur.
Our real-time tracking devices and wander management solution help prevent patients from roaming into restricted areas, alert healthcare staff to falls, and assist both patients and employees during emergency situations, ensuring peace of mind and enhanced patient safety.
Challenges faced by healthcare facilities without a patient wandering system
Patient wandering poses critical safety and security risks in healthcare facilities, especially in memory care units. Common threats include:
- Wandering into unauthorized or restricted areas.
- Slips, trips, and falls causing patient harm.
- Challenges during emergency evacuations.
Our advanced RTLS wander management solution, combined with customizable patient tags, addresses these risks effectively.
Equipped with fall detection capabilities, our patient tags immediately alert healthcare staff to incidents, enhancing patient safety.
During evacuations, wearable tags enable real-time tracking of each resident, ensuring everyone is accounted for. The system’s software analyzes patient location data to identify any missing individuals, allowing staff to respond promptly. Since each patient is assigned an RTLS tag, locating and protecting them becomes efficient and reliable.
Dementia Patients Wandering Solution
Patients suffering from dementia and related illnesses need to be allowed to move about while being monitored for leaving defined areas. Using AiRISTA’s advanced RTLS safety solutions, healthcare providers can improve patient experiences while providing critical protection and support to facilities in identifying undesirable movements and exits.
Wristband and pendant-style patient tags offer a comfortable, easy-to-wear devices that are rechargeable, battery replaceable, or disposable, delivering real-time location tracking and alarm capabilities based on device status and location (geofence, exit/entry).
How a Patient Wandering Alarm System Prevents Roaming and Enhances Safety
Our advanced RTLS patient wandering system is specifically designed to prevent incidents related to patient roaming, ensuring patients stay safe within designated areas.
For instance, if a patient wearing a tag approaches or enters a restricted area—such as an exit or unauthorized building zone—the system immediately detects this movement.
Based on customizable rules set by your facility, the system triggers appropriate actions to manage the situation effectively. These powerful, user-defined rules enable seamless integration with third-party systems, allowing you to automatically:
- Secure the area by locking doors to prevent further patient movement beyond safe boundaries.
- Alert designated healthcare staff or activate nurse call systems for rapid response.
- Tailor responses to meet your facility’s specific needs, ensuring optimal control and patient safety.
By leveraging this advanced technology, healthcare providers can reduce risks, improve compliance with safety protocols, and focus resources on delivering quality care while maintaining patient freedom and dignity.
Customer Experience
A facility could use the AiRISTA A1 tag to provide real-time entry/exit notifications and facility geofencing for dementia patients, ensuring patients safe within designated areas. This can be combined with the Sofia Patient Flow workflow module for easy alerting of any restricted entry or exit, as well as a personal alarming device.
Fully integrated with the B4i Personnel tag, alerts are immediately available to the closest caregiver, enabling rapid response. You can even implement our RTLS patient wandering system with your existing nurse call system for enhanced healthcare staff coordination.
Deployment Details
- Management Platform: AiRISTA sofia
- Infrastructure: Existing Cisco WiFi infrastructure
- Asset RTLS Tags: AiRISTA W4 WiFi/BLE Tag, A3 WiFi/BLE pendent tag and B4n WiFi/BLE Staff Tag
- Integrations: HL-7, ADT
- Deployment time: 7 days
AiRISTA’s RTLS Buyer’s Guide
To help you get a clear understanding of RTLS systems and what they’re capable of, we’ve created a comprehensive buyer’s guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
AiRISTA’s patient elopement system uses real-time location tracking, configurable alert zones, and intelligent workflow rules to distinguish normal patient movement from potential elopement events. Alerts are only triggered when a patient enters a restricted area or exit point associated with elopement risk, reducing unnecessary alarms and workflow disruption. Real-time patient location visibility helps staff respond quickly and improve patient elopement prevention efforts across healthcare environments.
AiRISTA’s patient elopement system is designed for patients at elevated risk of elopement, including individuals with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, behavioral health conditions, traumatic brain injuries, or cognitive impairment. Continuous RTLS monitoring and automated event reporting help healthcare organizations improve patient safety while supporting regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and patient elopement prevention protocols.
Yes. AiRISTA’s wander management solution can integrate with nurse call systems, security platforms, mobile communications tools, and existing healthcare workflow applications so alerts appear within systems staff already use every day. These integrations help accelerate response times, simplify workflow adoption, and strengthen patient elopement prevention without introducing unnecessary operational complexity.
AiRISTA’s wander management solution helps healthcare organizations improve safety for patients with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, behavioral health conditions, cognitive impairment, or elevated elopement risk. Real-time patient location monitoring and configurable alert zones help staff intervene quickly when patients approach restricted exits or unsafe areas.