RFID Healthcare Automates Clinical Workflow

Univ of Michigan Health System deploys RFID solution to streamline the clinical process for tissue handling. ...

... "The solution, called iRISecure, uses the unique characteristics of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to automate clinical workflow associated with tissue tracking." ...

Via CIO-L: RFID at Michigan Health System

RFID Tags Improve Patient Hospital Experience

ThingMagic RFID Readers are deployed to improve the patient experience at the California Cancer Center, where the administration is deplying a comprehensive, integrated RFID solution. ...

... "ThingMagic’s Astra UHF RFID readers are used to relay information from low profile passive RFID tags – located, for example, on a patient ID badge – to centralized applications that retrieve patient information in order to enhance the patient experience. This information includes patient preferences to activate custom hospital room settings - music, lighting, temperature, etc. - and location data that are sent to staff phone displays, allowing clinicians to greet or locate patients quickly. " ...

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Thin RFID Staff Badge

CenTrak launches people tracking solutions for the healthcare industry, combining real-time location system with thin RFID badges and advanced patient tags. ...

... "At only three millimeters (3 mm) thin the Staff Badge is the thinnest active RTLS tag ever produced and offers years of battery life. This size allows hospitals to place a standard personnel badge on top of the tag, enabling them to be seamlessly integrated into staff uniforms and hospital operations. RTLS programs that involve people greatly depend on the usage of tags. Currently, staff must remember to independently attach a tag to their uniforms. This requires a new process that is difficult to manage and results in missing RTLS data impacting overall system reliability and consistency. Gaps in data prevent hospital administrators from being able to make fully-informed decisions. " ...

Via CenTrak: Location-Certain RTLS Products

RFID Stent Tracking in Hospital

UMass Memorial Medical Center uses RFID technology to reduce costs, save lives by preventing mistakes, and reducing recall cycle times. ...

... "In UMass Memorial's shiny, four-year old catheterization laboratory, supply chain coordinator Raul Navarro slaps RFID tags onto boxes containing stents and balloons for use in the department's procedure rooms. " ...

Via Boston Globe: Stent Tracking

RFID Smart Shelf System Pilot Program

3M completes implementation of RFID Smart Shelf System for management of medical files for U.S. Army personnel and their family members at Fort Hood, Texas. The contract is for three-years at a value of $3.76-million for training and maintenance services. Fort Hood, near Austin Texas, is the country's largest active-duty domestic armed forces facility. ...

... "The custom-designed 3M RFID Smart Shelf System is the centerpiece of a pilot program that may be extended to other military installations after a period of evaluation. The system is intended to substantially reduce errors and inefficiencies associated with manual tracking, retrieval, filing and file merging methods of medical records management at Fort Hood, where thousands of files may be in use at the base's six clinics during any given month. In turn, such improvement would make a positive impact on operational efficiencies in health care delivery, the troop deployment process, and the management of medical data collection. One of the top priorities of the system is to provide virtually instant accessibility to complete medical records for soldiers and their family members requiring intensive and complex healthcare services. " ...

Via Sirit: RFID Tracking System Increases Efficiency in Medical Data Collection and Healthcare Delivery