As introduced in posts earlier this week, RFID technology offers
great potential to significantly reduce costs while improving materials
management and inventory operations throughout hospitals and other
healthcare facilities. RFID-based solutions help hospitals answer the
most fundamental questions of knowing who and where its patients and
resources are. With this data, hospitals can enhance a number of
processes related to asset management, patient tracking and throughput,
inventory control, and patient-centric services.
Passive RFID-based inventory control solutions provide real-time data
on inventory availability and use as items move from storage to
individual departments and ultimately to the clinicians and patients who
use them. This accurate management of the hospital supply chain – from
scheduling through discharge – is essential to improving workflow and
charge capture.
Helping to drive these efficiencies into the healthcare market, Goods That Talk
(GTT), located in southern Brazil has developed innovative UHF
RFID-based solutions, serving the entire hospital service chain
including hospitals, clinical offices, distributors and manufacturers.
GTT is partnered with ACURA RFID Systems,
a longstanding ThingMagic partner focused on developing and
distributing RFID tags and readers to markets such as healthcare,
mining, logistics, transportation, industrial automation, chemical,
security, and several others.
Included under the umbrella of GTT’s GTmed solutions, Gt Cabinets
integrate ThingMagic UHF RFID readers to improve the management of
implantable medical devices and drugs needed during surgical procedures.
The time between consumption and invoicing and the rigorous need for
safety and coordination of the stock of these items makes product
monitoring difficult. By tagging each of these items with RFID-EPC Gen 2
tags and reading the inventory in real-time with UHF RFID readers
integrated into the cabinets, hospitals can automate the management of
intermediary stocks, minimize safety stock holdings, and create a
proactive system of replenishment that streamlines the entire supply
chain.
In an era where healthcare costs are increasing at the same time that
hospital profitability is decreasing, hospital administrators are
challenged with finding new ways to run their organizations more
efficiently. These solutions are just a few examples of how low cost,
easy to deploy Passive UHF RFID provide hospitals with an economical way
to measure a large number of parameters in hospital settings,
streamline workflows and introduce efficiencies and cost savings across
the entire healthcare supply chain.
What uses of RFID in healthcare do you find most beneficial? What
technology trends are you seeing that address the cost savings and
efficiency needs of hospital administrators? What if your goods could
“talk” to you?
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