How to edit zone name, type and recenter zones for Healthcare.
A zone is a digital area marked by a geo-fence that corresponds to a physical or virtual location on the facility’s property. Zones can be rooms, hallways, closets, subsections of rooms, or any area in the facility that requires a geofence boundary for the most accurate asset location. In customer sites with exit monitors installed, asset location can be managed for inventory leaving the facility. Note that the customer site must have exit monitors installed to use exit monitors.
When zone additions or changes are needed, consult with Cognosos’ Customer Success team to request those changes.
Cognosos further provides a location intelligence option that provides even more detailed asset tracking data to the portal. Zone options and functions will vary depending upon the use of the Cognosos location AI feature. Those are noted throughout this article.
Generally speaking, the hierarchy of the facility is as follows:
Buildings - Refers to the physical facility (hospital, healthcare center, etc). There may be one or more buildings for an organization. Buildings are set up by the installation teams.
Floors - Defined during portal set up by the installation teams. There may be one or more floors per building.
Zones - Zones are created at the floor level and can consist of any defined space (hospital room, storage room, nursing station, hallway, etc.) Zones ‘hold’ assets and each zone has an asset occupancy. Special zones include exit monitors and ProPAR (clean, soiled).
All users have the ability to view information regarding the buildings, floors, and zones on the digital map as described in the map articles; certain users may edit limited zone details. The addition or removal of zones is managed by the Cognosos Customer Success team.
Cognosos offers even greater asset location with the Location AI add-on. This feature provides the ability to pinpoint the location of a given asset within a larger, open area (e.g., a sizeable storage facility). RTLS platforms equipped with Location AI use fixed zones so the View/Edit option will be unavailable. Users may edit zone names and zone type.
Editing Zone Type
If you need to change the type of zone (virtual, clean, soiled) you can change those directly from the digital map. Once the zone is selected in the left-hand menu, select the Edit (pencil) icon in the Zone Summary box on the bottom of the right menu.
In the Edit Zone pop-up window, make changes to name or zone type.
Clean or Soiled - Used for ProPAR; zones must be designated as such to show up on the ProPAR page.
Exit Monitor - for zones designated as exits; show as special icon on the map and signal when an asset is at risk of leaving a zone; display on the Exits tab on the map.
Select Save to continue and return to the digital map; otherwise select Cancel to return to the map without changes.
Zone details can also be changed from the Zones tab in My Site. The Zones list defaults to all zones defined in the system. Use the search option to locate the zone that needs to change. Select the checkbox next to the zone to edit. Click Edit in the Zones menu bar. If the Edit button is grayed out, ensure that you have only one zone selected.
Make the necessary changes. Select Save to continue or Cancel to close without making changes.
Reminder that zone changes to clean and soiled rooms will impact ProPAR.
The system returns to Zones list.
Recentering a Zone
Zone areas are set up during implementation and with rare exceptions changes are not needed following go-live. If you are directed by a Cognosos team member to recenter a zone, open the map and click the proper zone from the Zones tab. Change the map to Edit mode using the View/Edit toggle.
Click the recenter zone icon on the right.
Click the Reset the center point button when it appears. Select Save.
Remember that changes to the zone type (virtual) are unavailable when the portal uses Location AI. Updates to a clean or soiled zone will impact ProPAR activities and counts.