09/23/2026
WOWs were never exactly our forte...but that's why we leave evaluating such products up to the experts like the awesome folks at Capsa Healthcare!
You're in the middle of documenting, the medication scan is queued, and a family member is asking about the care plan. Then the battery icon turns red. Nothing dramatic happens next. You save what you can, go looking for a cart that's charged, log back in, and try to pick up where you left off. It costs five or ten minutes, and the thread of the conversation you were in.
If you lead a unit, you've probably heard some version of this more than once, and it usually traces back to the buying decision. The runtime on a cart's spec sheet is measured at a steady, average power draw in controlled conditions.
A real shift doesn't look like that. Add a barcode scanner, a label printer, and whatever documentation tool rolled out this year, and the cart is working a lot harder than the number on paper. So the better question isn't how many hours the battery lasts. It's whether it will get your nurses through a full shift, on your unit, with your technology, a year from now.
We wrote about what to ask when evaluating WOWs and the link is in the comments 👇