The editors of RFID Journal have created a DVD containing 18 end-user case studies illustrating the use of RFID in the health-care and pharmaceutical sectors, plus five additional presentations by RFID experts.
This DVD contains recordings of presentations made at RFID Journal events.
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center's Disney Family Cancer Center is employing an RFID solution to reduce patient anxiety and improve workflow. Hear how the hospital uses RFID—readers to relay information to activate custom hospital-room settings—music, lighting and temperature—as well as location data that can be sent to the staff's phone, enabling clinicians to locate patients quickly. Information is also provided to the facility's security and environmental-control systems, thus maximizing the hospital's operational efficiencies.
Growing technological complexity within the patient-care environment, coupled with increased workloads and reduced staffing, has created difficulties and discontinuities in the management of patient information and the overall care environment. These issues have directly impacted and contributed to a rise in equipment-related errors, patient dissatisfaction and a potential for patient injury, and have resulted in an overall increase in concern for patient safety. Many hospitals have augmented their traditional operational and business models to expand their role in developing enhanced clinical applications, capitalizing on new enabling technologies providing added accuracy and efficiency to their operational processes. One of the most promising technologies is RFID, and its role in real-time location services. Integrating RTLS and RFID information with inventory applications and processes has the potential to enable better utilization of devices and reduce capital expenditures. Integrating RFID with workflow processes provides metrics to enhance the complex utilization of staff resources, which can be focused on optimizing the patient-care process, along with patient safety and satisfaction.
Genesis Health System deployed an RFID solution that allows it to locate rented pumps and return them on time, as well as know where the hospital's own pumps are located. The system provides detailed reports based on equipment movement and usage. In this session, hear how the time spent locating missing equipment has been reduced from 22 minutes to a maximum of 2 minutes searching via computer.
In today's economic environment, businesses are under constant pressure to deliver high-quality products and services more quickly, while reducing costs. These firms need to increase flexibility to respond to market conditions, ensure regulatory compliance and manage the proliferation of mobile, high-value assets. To meet these challenges, companies must maximize the value of their mission-critical assets—they need real-time visibility. This webinar reveals how sensor-based systems, using a combination of software, RFID and ultrasound technologies, can track and monitor assets and individuals to help businesses enhance processes and improve asset utilization. You will also hear how Saint Michael's Medical Center, in Newark, N.J., is utilizing RFID technologies to realize benefits in shipping and receiving efficiency, as well as for patient identification, error reduction at the point of care, medications management and employee tracking.
In this session, Jeff Cochran, Regional Vice President of Awarepoint, one of the leading provider of real time location systems for hospitals, explains how RTLS technology can be used to improve processes, work flow and asset utilization rates.
TLC Care Center, a rehabilitation therapy and long-term nursing facility, is providing RFID-enabled bracelets to residents of its new memory wing, which houses patients with advanced forms of dementia. The wristbands are outfitted with active RFID tags that trigger alerts and lock doors if a resident approaches an exit to ensure residents do not exit the wing. Hear how the system was set up to protect dementia patients, and how it is performing in the real world. Only the audio of this session was capture.