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RFID Solutions for Healthcare IndustryThe medical care industry has never been more focused than now on ways to reduce expenses and save more patients lives. Technology is helping to increase these efficiencies. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology specifically is being put to work in different areas of the system such as asset, patient and baby tracking, patient-bedside care, and helping make Operating Room procedures safer. Asset Tracking using RFID: Healthcare facilities invest large amounts capital in upgrading and maintaining expensive equipment required by healthcare professionals for diagnostics, treatment and monitoring of patients. It is critical that the equipment is available when required. When the equipment needed is not readily available this leads to many undesirable outcomes:
RFID technology resolves most of the above. The technology can as simple as attaching an RFID tag to each piece of equipment and strategically locating readers throughout the area of operations where the hardware is used. In this way, any device can be located when needed. Staff can know where in the facility a certain piece of equipment is located when they really need to have it. The result is less time wasted, better utilization of existing assets and patient care improves. Patient Tracking Solutions: Hospitals and Health Care facilities are more concerned these days about having the ability to accurately track and accurately identify their patients. Whether it’s dispensing medication or identifying the individual for procedures or pulling up a history of treatment on a patient; RFID technology with the appropriate software is a way to manage the information much more efficiently. An RFID enabled system is used forAn RFID enabled system is used for accurately locating and tracking people, equipment and objects in a hospital. The system can be designed to track hospital assets, curb excess expenditures, increase safety and ensure security and access control by placing small radio frequency identification devices, or ‘RFID tags’ on people and objects.
The institution is responsible for the care and safety of patients. If a patient is missing from their hospital bed or emergency ward the responsibility rests with the healthcare organization. RFID makes tracking and finding patients easier. Administering bedside care is safer, faster, because of realtime and accurate identification and verification of patient.
Newborn Baby Tracking
Solutions
In the case of the newborn
needing neonatal care, family members are almost as
anxious as the new mother, to greet and bond with
the new family member. When the newborn needs to be
in an intensive care unit (ICU) this becomes very
difficult due to the restricted access in the ICU.
RFID solves this problem by making available to
families the ability to view on a computer monitor
outside of the ICU the key data about the baby, a
photograph, the height, weight, skin color and
temperature after keying in, for example, the
mother’s family name and first name.
Mother-Baby Mix-ups Eliminated:
ELARIANRFID Solution:ID can seem like a jungle at times. ELARIANRFID has a team of sales and support staff that will help you through the maze and identify the right solution for your particular set of requirements. ELARIAN RFID can develop a turnkey RFID solution for your asset or patient tracking needs. ELARIANRFID has a complete cross section of RFID solutions including best of breed RFID readers and RFID tags, software and systems integration services. To learn more about how RFID technology can help solve your patient tracking needs,
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Hospitals and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are
facing daily challenges especially when responding
to emergencies. They need to be able to manage a
large number of patients during an emergency
effectively and efficiently.
The
Maternity Ward is a place for joy and celebration as
new family members are welcomed into the world. The
ward staff shares some of this joy by playing their
part throughout the labor and the post-partum care
of mother and newborn child. However anxiety levels
rise for the patients, families and staff when there
are complications during the labor and/or when the
newborn needs neonatal care. In many of these
instances the baby and the mother need to be
separated, a scenario that creates anxiety. Anxiety
can easily turn to anger and a possible law suit
when there is a mother-baby mix up; the wrong baby
being sent to the wrong mother for the crucial early
bonding period, breast-feeding etc.
RFID
technology will help both these difficult and
challenging situations. At the time of admittance
the mother is provided with a patient’s RFID tag
that will start the process of tracking all
procedures relevant to that labor. Once the child is
born, an ankle tag is provided to the baby as well
and immediately cross-referenced to the baby’s
mother and the mother’s tag. 
Even
when the mix up is uncovered moments after the
mistake is made, this can cause heightened levels of
anger and dissatisfaction with the services
rendered. Any mother-baby mix up is a potential
liability to the hospital. This scenario can be
eliminated when staff follows a procedure of reading
the baby’s RFID tag and then reading the mother’s
RFID tag and re-confirming the match that was
initiated at the birth. 