Get more from the equipment you already own.

The cost of not knowing

Limited equipment visibility creates costs across the hospital network.

The impact reaches across clinical, operational and financial teams, but four areas can create the greatest cost.

Unnecessary capital spending

If you can't see what you have, it's difficult to know what you need.

Without real-time inventory visibility, hospitals can purchase additional equipment when existing units are available elsewhere in the facility or hospital network. Better visibility helps organizations make capital decisions based on what they actually own, where it is and how it is being utilized.

Lost clinical time

Highly trained staff shouldn't be searching for equipment.

When equipment isn't where staff expect it to be, valuable clinical time is spent searching rooms, departments and storage areas instead of supporting patient care.

Underutilized equipment

Available equipment can remain invisible.

Assets can sit unused in rooms, departments or other facilities while additional equipment is requested elsewhere. Network-wide visibility helps identify where equipment is located and where it can be put to better use.

Asset lifecycle management

Location is only part of the picture.

Limited asset information can make it harder to manage equipment age, service requirements and replacement planning across a large inventory. SPARQ can bring location and key asset information together to support better service and capital-planning decisions.

Where SPARQ creates value

One solution. Multiple healthcare applications.

The same SPARQ infrastructure can support multiple applications across a hospital or healthcare network, increasing the value of every deployment.

Mobile medical equipment

Find critical equipment when it's needed.

Provide room-level visibility into IV pumps, bladder scanners and other mobile equipment, reducing search time and helping clinical teams quickly locate what they need.

Real-time inventory

Know what you have. Across the network.

Maintain real-time visibility into equipment inventory across departments, facilities and hospitals, providing a clearer picture of what is available before additional equipment is purchased.

Equipment utilization

Put existing assets to better use.

Understand where equipment is located and how it moves, helping identify underutilized assets and opportunities to redistribute equipment across departments or facilities.

Service & lifecycle management

Manage more than location.

Associate equipment with service dates, age and other key asset information, supporting preventative maintenance, replacement planning and better capital decisions.

More assets. Same infrastructure.

Extend visibility wherever it creates value.

Once SPARQ infrastructure is installed, the same network can support additional hospital applications and asset types without deploying another tracking infrastructure.

Visibility that moves with the equipment

From room-level location to network-wide inventory.

SPARQ continuously updates equipment location as assets move throughout the hospital, giving clinical and operational teams the information they need to find, manage and utilize equipment more effectively.

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   Equipment moves

   SPARQ moves with it.

   Trackers remain attached to mobile medical equipment as it moves between patient rooms, departments, storage areas and other locations.

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   Location updates

   Know which room it's in.

   SPARQ infrastructure identifies equipment location at room level, providing staff with current location information without requiring manual updates.

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   Staff find what they need

   Search. Find. Go.

   Authorized users can search for a specific piece or type of equipment and quickly identify where available units are located. Less searching means more staff time can be returned to productive clinical work.

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   Operations see the bigger picture

   From one asset to the entire inventory.

   Dashboards, queries and reporting provide visibility across departments, facilities and the broader hospital network, helping teams understand inventory, distribution and utilization.

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   Information supports better decisions

   Turn visibility into action.

   Combine location and inventory visibility with information such as equipment age and service dates to support redistribution, maintenance, replacement and capital-planning decisions.

Real-world evidence

Proven in a real hospital environment

Real-time equipment visibility, built to scale across the hospital network.

SPARQ is operating in a live hospital environment, providing room-level visibility into critical mobile medical equipment. The deployment is part of a planned expansion across a three-hospital network with more than 400 beds.

Live deployment today

~20%

Capital redirected

Based on customer estimates, improved equipment visibility could allow approximately 20% of planned equipment capital to be redirected to higher-priority clinical requirements.

Customer estimate

80%+

Less time searching

The customer estimates equipment search time can be reduced from approximately one hour to 10 minutes per nurse per shift, a reduction of more than 80%.

Customer estimate

2–3 days

Rapid deployment

SPARQ's battery-powered infrastructure enabled a complete hospital facility to be installed and operational in days, including deployment within a 100-year-old hospital without requiring new wiring.