Solution updated on: 2017/5/1 21:42:29 - by - - RFIDtagworld XMINNOV RFID Tag Manufacturer / SolutionID:1607
Reduces time spent searching for medical devices and beds.
Increase utilization rates of medical device fleet.
Fewer missing assets avoids unnecessary procurement.
Reduces patient wait times and appointment cancellations.
Improves preparation for incoming patients in A&E.
Streamlines maintenance of equipment.
Maintains accurate location data records for safety equipment.
Supports infection control and improves patient safety.
Provides access to live and historic data that can be used to predict demand and inform planning, budgeting, and resource provision.
Hospitals are complex places, with intricate systems of personnel and material flows that need to run smoothly to achieve an efficient patient flow. From patient admission to discharge and everything in between, hospital assets must be locatable, accessible and in working order to ensure patients are treated with the correct equipment, safely and in a timely manner.
If a medical device can’t be located, then it will miss its scheduled maintenance date, meaning the item could be faulty and not safe to use but remain in circulation, causing risk to any patients who are treated using it. It can also impact procurement when the location of various medical devices is unknown, and stocks are short or depleted. A hospital’s procurement team purchases new replacement items to ensure supply to devices to treat patients, this can lead to excess stocks, adding more costs and an increased fleet size to manage.
Medical equipment is labelled with RFID tags and, as the equipment moves around different areas of the hospital, the tags interact with ceiling mounted RFID antennas and grids of installed nodes at logistical points throughout the hospital. Assets can also be detected using handheld readers.