The Benefits of an End-to-end Smart Sensing RFID Infrastructure in future hospitals

A comprehensive Smart Sensing RFID infrastructure set-up in hospitals can enable management of patients, doctors and staff as well as all assets and inventory. The records of each patient can be viewed on real time with validation and hence patient care can be taken to a whole new level. The areas that Smart Sensing RFID can positively impact are as below:

Smart Sensing Asset Management:

Implementing Smart Sensing RFID, you have immediate visibility of equipment and enhance their utilization to the very end of their lives. Maintenance schedules can also be focused towards checking and repairing the equipment as against finding it. This would lead to saving of investment and also help hospitals to deliver better health care services.

Smart Sensing Inventory Management:

To safeguard against the risk of running short in an emergency, hospitals stock up spares in their inventory for each equipment. By over-stacking to the tune of approximately 40%, hospitals spend their capital in absolutely insignificant places. Implementation of Smart Sensing RFID can free up this crucial capital, space and enable hospitals to put them to better use.

Smart Sensing Patient Tracking and Management

The incidents of patients going missing or identity issues, babies being swapped, incorrect medicine and dosage being administered are all not uncommon. Despite being as meticulous as possible, human errors do creep in and lead to consequences which are, at times, catastrophic.

By employing Smart Sensing RFID technologies, patients who are admitted to hospitals are given Smart Sensing RFID enabled buttons or wrist bands. The patient’s history, details of the ailment, course of administering, medical Team information, medicines and time can all be accessed with an Smart Sensing RFID reader by reading the information stored in the tags which on the smart software solution linked to the ERP system. This can virtually eliminate human error and ensure the best healthcare services to the patients.

Smart Sensing Document and Data File Tracking

The medical records of patients are confidential, critical and the information is essential for better treatment. Many documents and data files, including charts, physician and pharmacy orders, and laboratory reports must circulate to key people and departments to ensure that best collaborative on time care is administered. By leveraging Smart Sensing RFID, the documents and data files will have limited and need-based access. This ensures that patient data is secure and not compromised. This is extremely critical for efficiency, trust as well as to build a great brand value for the hospitals.

Savings due to Smart Sensing RFID implementations

Hospitals, especially in the Health Care industry have leveraged the power of Smart Sensing RFID to save millions of dollars per year and effectively use it to impart better health care. For instance, the Hospital have tagged everything that moves including high-value assets, buttons, wristbands on patients and the badges of all staff members. By tagging all rental equipment, the hospital saves nearly tens of thousands of dollars a month on rental fee. This is the case of a small hospital, imagine the savings that a huge hospital or a chain of hospitals can enjoy if they deploy RFID efficiently.

Smart Sensing technology

Smartphones, Tablets, Enterprise Digital Assistants are set to replace everything from POS machines to credit cards to even barcode readers. The mobile phones, with the necessary application interface and middleware would be able to read the information on the tag. All it needs is to be Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled or Blue low Energy (BLE).

Health Care industry will be evangelized by a regulatory mandate coming in to ensure that RFID tagging is done on all assets and equipment as well as patients, staff and doctors. By using NFC enabled phones, the hospital staff and nurses can read the RFID enabled smart buttons, wrist bands and appropriately administer medicines, check vital stats and alert in case of emergencies through the phone to patients and medical teams.

The amount of data that RFID implementation will enable to be collected and collated would be immense. This would lead to huge advancements in customized and special healthcare to each patient by appropriate Data Mining. Smart Sensing RFID will help to keep a check on the unwanted costs and procurements and thus pass on the benefits of such savings to the ultimate beneficiaries – the patients.

Smart Sensing RFID readers with proprietary tailored next generation middleware can integrate into any hospital management system and enable seamless implementation of end-to-end solutions.

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