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Consider Remote Operations as a Way to Strengthen Hospital Resilience

The drive by health systems to rely more on remote operations for hospital infrastructure management is one aspect of hospital resilience. We predict that in the future, resilient hospitals will increasingly rely on remote operations.

Facility Challenges are Easier with Remote Operations

Facility Challenges are lessened with remote operations. Schneider Electric organized a global panel of 20 healthcare executives this spring, and the results showed that healthcare providers are interested in remote operations to prepare for the wide range of facility-related difficulties they'll face.

These options, they claimed, made sense for a number of reasons. "Daily inspections on the electrical systems, HVAC, medical air compressors, O2 storage, and emergency O2 banks could be done more effectively with a building maintenance system that permits remote access and troubleshooting," said one participant. Others emphasized how employing a remote platform can result in significant savings in facility management personnel travel time and resource use.

Remote operations, in our opinion, can provide considerably more than the ability to deal reactively with alerts, potentially destructive changes in power quality, and similar issues with present technology. The beauty of today's remote systems is their ability to foresee, preempt, proactively troubleshoot, and avoid problems with hospital building management systems before they cause interruptions, all while using high-quality data to guide them. In this way, today's remote solutions ensure business continuity — and also the safety of patients and employees — by allowing enterprises to respond and adapt more rapidly and flexibly when confronted with unusual situations, such as a pandemic or a natural disaster.

Boost Operational Efficiency

Remote systems can discover and resolve most issues before the customer even realizes they exist, boosting uptime, extending asset longevity, assuring workforce safety, and maximizing system use and availability for the ongoing delivery of vital clinical and non-clinical services.

The concentrated focus on prevention made feasible by entrusting building infrastructure management to specialist experts off-site frees up hospital facility management staff to focus on more important issues. The efficiencies that arise improve productivity, cut costs, and lower energy use.

We collaborate closely with healthcare professionals to identify which jobs can be completed remotely and which cannot, so that facilities may focus their efforts on condition-based maintenance rather than routine maintenance. Why waste time and skill on something that doesn't require it?

Possessing for Healthcare works proactively and consultatively to address issues before they become a problem for the hospital, using the best data to track energy consumption, identify problem areas, and allocate resources appropriately.