Vehicle tracking for care services: More efficient and safer on the road

Vehicle tracking is a powerful tool that makes care services more efficient and increases the reliability of care. With modern telematics solutions, care services can keep track of their vehicles at all times. This saves time, reduces stress and ensures that your patients receive reliable care.

Published 11 December 2025

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Imagine this: You have a care assignment coming up and need to visit several patients in a short period of time. But suddenly, one of your team members is delayed – perhaps in traffic, perhaps waiting for an emergency. Wouldn’t it be handy to know exactly where each vehicle is at any moment so you can flexibly adjust your schedule?

Digital solutions have become an integral part of modern care. They make everyday life easier, save costs and improve the quality of care. Mobile applications for nursing staff in particular are becoming increasingly important: smartphones and tablets are now indispensable tools – whether for communicating with colleagues, doctors and relatives, documenting care services directly on site or photographing wound care and therapies. Apps for medication management and vital sign monitoring also support carers in their daily work.

But it’s not just patient care that benefits from digital support: vehicle tracking is another powerful tool that makes care services more efficient and increases the reliability of care. With modern telematics solutions, care services can keep track of their vehicles at all times. This saves time, reduces stress and ensures that your patients receive reliable care.

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GPS tracking for vehicles and teams in care

Vehicle tracking means locating vehicles in real time or over a specific period on digital maps. This offers many advantages for care services:

Efficient resource planning: Care workers can concentrate on their work without constantly having to answer queries about their location.
Online working time reports and route analyses: These functions simplify accounting and help to increase productivity.
Safety features: In an emergency, help can be sent quickly if a carer does not arrive as planned.

How vehicle tracking can improve your care service management:

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1. Increase productivity with vehicle tracking

Vehicle tracking helps to significantly reduce the daily workload of your care staff:

Route optimisation: Less driving time means more time for patients.
Flexible staff allocation: In the event of sick leave or emergencies, assignments can be adjusted immediately. In addition, in emergencies, the nearest colleague can be identified and sent to the location.
Maintenance information: Early warnings about vehicle maintenance prevent unexpected breakdowns, especially when using the Quartix Check app to log inspections and flag issues quickly.
Customer satisfaction: Precise arrival times and transparent services increase your patients’ trust.

These functions save care staff valuable time and allow them to concentrate on what is most important: caring for patients.

2. Simplify accounting and administration

Digital vehicle tracking not only saves time in care operations, but also in administration and billing:

Automatic data collection: Shift times, mileage and driving times are automatically documented.
Fair payment: Verifiable working hours and distances travelled reduce disputes.
Precise billing documentation: Patient visit times can be clearly documented and verified in the event of customer enquiries.

This simplifies accounting and ensures transparent, traceable processes.

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3. Increase security and compliance

Healthcare is all about safety – both for staff and patients. Vehicle tracking can help you with this:

This not only increases the safety of your team, but also ensures compliance with important legal requirements.

4. Save costs and optimise processes

Digital vehicle tracking reduces unnecessary expenditure and increases efficiency:

Lower fuel consumption thanks to optimised routes
Better driving styles thanks to driver behaviour scores
Reducing engine idling
Less overtime through more efficient resource planning
Less administrative work thanks to automatic documentation

Vehicle tracking makes care services more economical without compromising the quality of care.

Vehicle tracking for care services is more than just a GPS system – it increases productivity, simplifies administration, enhances safety, connects mobile care workers and saves costs. Care workers can concentrate on caring for patients, while care services optimise processes and increase patient satisfaction.

Those who rely on digital telematics solutions such as vehicle tracking today are making their care services future-proof, efficient and transparent – a clear win for patients, employees and the company.