GPS Tracking for Medical Courier Services Fleets
1 Jun 2017
If you own or manage a medical transport carrier services fleet, you have a lot of responsibility resting on your shoulders every time your drivers get behind the wheel. Whether you’re transplanting organs, blood, plasma, medical records, medical specimens, medications, x-rays, MRIs, CT scans or more, it is critical that your drivers arrive at the right destination at the right time. GPS fleet tracking can help you make sure these critical deliveries happen in a timely manner and more.
Ensure Timely Deliveries
Medical courier services often deal in life and death. The timely arrival of organs, medications, blood, plasma, and even medical records can mean the difference in saving or losing a life. GPS tracking services update maps frequently to ensure that you have access to the latest routes, detours, and closings so you can make the deliveries as quickly as possible – even helping to monitor traffic delays and navigate around them to keep the deliveries on time and on target.
Ensures Correct Deliveries
Accuracy is also critical when dealing with medical information, data, specimens, and more. Making the mistake of delivering the wrong package to the wrong location can cost precious time and result in multiple negative outcomes. GPS encoding on the packages being delivered ensures that the correct package is delivered on time every time.
Allow Receiving Facilities to Track Packages in Transit
Because many medical courier packages involve time critical deliveries, the receiving facility and team can track the deliveries in real time allowing them to have the medical team on hand to and ready to go the moment the package arrives to perform the transfusion, transplant, surgery, or treatment. In an industry where seconds can save lives, this feature alone is worth its weight in gold.
Verifies Chain of Custody
GPS tracking also allows for the tracking of the chain of custody of certain documents, medical records, organs, and biohazardous materials. The ability to track the chain of custody throughout the process offers legal protection and insures that avoidable mistakes aren’t made.
Helps to Improve Safety of Assets
Medical courier services often carry precious cargo – often cargo that has been paid for with a heavy price (in the event of organ donations) and lovingly offered freely to others in need. Keeping those assets safe is a priority. This means driving patterns and behavior behind the wheel of drivers needs to be monitored for safety. GPS tracking allows you to do that by printing out accurate records after each delivery, but also allows you to set up alerts notifying you when drivers are deviating from routes, swerving, speeding, hard braking, and engaging in other risky behaviors.
GPS fleet tracking may not be the first thought medical courier and transport services fleet managers consider for improving their businesses, but it can be an important one to carefully evaluate.
If you own or manage a medical courier and transport services fleet, contact us at LiveViewGPS to learn how GPS fleet tracking can help your business.
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