Nurses spend 30 minutes a day searching for medical equipment. Multiply that across your hospital, and you're looking at millions lost every single year.
The Real Equipment Problem Isn’t Tracking, It's Finding
Hospitals already track assets. But ask any nurse or clinician how long they spend finding them, and you’ll get a different story.
Assets get misplaced, left behind in another ward, wheeled into storage and forgotten, or accidentally sent to the wrong floor. And yes, sometimes they’re hoarded not out of malice, but out of necessity.
When nurses or clinical staff aren’t confident that the equipment they need will be available when they need it, they start hiding or holding onto it "just in case." It’s a rational response to an unreliable system. But when everyone does this, the system becomes even more inefficient.
Studies across healthcare systems show that between 10–20% of mobile medical equipment is either lost or underutilized at any given time. And the consequences are real: higher equipment spending, delayed treatments, and stressed staff.
What’s missing isn’t more tracking tech it’s better visibility.
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30 Minutes a Day Adds Up to €10M a Year
According to industry estimates, the average nurse or clinician spends 30 minutes a day looking for equipment. In a 1000-bed hospital, that adds up to more than €10 million annually worth in wasted time.
That’s time not spent on patient care. Time that increases stress. Time that adds pressure to already stretched teams.
MazeMap: The Missing Layer That Makes Finding Easy
This is where MazeMap’s asset visualization comes in. It doesn’t track the equipment it helps staff find it.
MazeMap integrates with your existing systems and displays real-time asset locations on a digital map of your hospital. Staff can:
- Search for equipment by name or type
- See its real-time location on a floor plan
- Get directions to the closest available device
No guesswork. No wandering. No hoarding.
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Why Visualization Beats Data Alone
Hospitals have the data but it’s often buried in back-end systems only accessible to a few.
MazeMap brings that data to the front line. It puts equipment locations into the hands of nurses, porters, and facilities teams through a map they already use for navigation and colleague-finding.
It’s familiar, fast, and actually gets used.
The Ripple Effect: Better Use, Less Waste
When staff can trust that they’ll find what they need, they stop hoarding. Inventory becomes more transparent. Utilization improves. Fewer purchases are needed to compensate for “missing” items. And patients get what they need, when they need it.
This isn't just a digital map it's a shift in behavior and efficiency.
From Hidden Assets to High Performance
MazeMap’s asset visualization is already in use in hospitals across Europe and North America. It's easy to roll out, integrates with your current systems, and doesn’t require replacing your RTLS.
If you already use MazeMap for wayfinding or colleague-finding, adding asset visualization is a natural next step.
And if you don’t?
Then this is the smartest place to start.
Want to see how real-time asset visualization could reclaim time, reduce costs, and ease pressure on your teams? Let’s talk or better yet, let’s map it out.
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