RFID technology has broad application prospect in hospital and healthcare field. RFID hospital management system can realize the interaction between patients and medical personnel, medical institutions and devices, and gradually achieve information and intelligence. In addition, RFID also plays an important role in patient management, access control, hospital linen laundry management, hospital medicine management and so on.
Here are 6 common RFID applications in hospital management.
Hospital equipment is expensive, and medical items must be stored according to strict storage standards, which increases the difficulty and complexity of hospital asset management. In hospital asset management, using RFID tags can achieve twice the results with half the effort, saving the time and labor needed to find equipment and improving the hospital’s ability to manage assets.
For example, the installation of RFID tags on blood transfusion pumps, hospital beds, stretchers, wheelchairs and other movable assets can make the search and inspection process extremely fast and accurate, more than 20 times faster than traditional methods.
The supply of medicine in hospitals is changing rapidly. Traditional medicine inventory tracking solutions that use manual counting or bar codes can take a lot of time. Using RFID technology, employees can use hand-held RFID reader to read RFID tags attached to medicine packaging and quickly take inventory, which not only reduces calculation time, but also makes the data more accurate and reduces human error.
RFID technology can be used for the storage, use and inspection of medicines to simplify manual and paper record processing, prevent out-of-stock and facilitate medicine recalls, avoid confusion between similar drug names, doses and dosage forms, enhance medicine management and ensure timely supply and formulation of medicines. RFID technology can be used for the storage, use and inspection of medicines to simplify manual and paper record processing, prevent out-of-stock and facilitate medicine recalls, avoid confusion between similar drug names, doses and dosage forms, enhance medicine management and ensure timely supply and formulation of medicines. HUAYUAN provides several RFID tags for medicines package and inventory management. Furthermore, we have special design cryo RFID label is ideal for storage and transportation in deep freezer environment.
Medical waste contains a large number of pathogens, toxic and harmful chemicals or radioactive contaminants, which makes it more difficult to dispose of. It is difficult to track and monitor medical waste in real time by traditional methods. And it is easy to cause the illegal loss of medical waste.
Using RFID technology, you can determine the ward, type, quantity and weight of each bag of medical waste, and track who transported the medical waste to the turnover station, when and where to avoid cross-infection. At the same time, RFID technology can realize the dynamic management of medical waste, including checking the entire medical waste treatment process, tracking the medical waste of special significance, to prevent the loss of the entire medical waste bag.
It can also purposefully track the weight changes of designated clinical waste, spot check the weight of clinical waste recycling stations to prevent the outflow of subpackages and reduce the cost of disposal of clinical waste.
Hospital linen management is relatively special way, and all these items must be cleaned and disinfected to ensure sterility when used by the next patient. In addition, there are other problems in the use and management of hospital linen, including data errors in the linen distribution process, washing and inventory management, cumbersome transfer of inventory, loss of unknown causes, scrap, etc.
RFID provides a perfect solution for hospital linen management, making the process operation more reasonable and efficient. After collecting the linen, the system can automatically generate delivery orders. Linen handover between the hospital and the washing plant is accomplished through an RFID system, eliminating the need for manual inventory and staffing. At the same time, the hospital can also obtain the linen washing cost, washing time, washing quantity and other data through the RFID laundry tag in real time, so as to provide reference data for the linen purchase plan.
RFID access control is common use in hospitals. For hospitals, security access control is important because it can restrict access to important rooms or areas to prevent evil people from wandering around the hospital.
Staff must tap on an RFID card or other type of RFID tag in front of the door reader to enter. RFID hospital access control prevents unauthorized access to restricted areas and provides secure protection for patients, medicines and medical equipment against theft or damage. By monitoring and tracking medical equipment and patients in hospitals in real time, we can prevent patients from leaving privately, prevent valuable equipment from being damaged or stolen, and protect temperature sensitive drugs and laboratory samples.
In hospitals using the RFID system, patients will be given RFID-tagged wristbands that store basic information such as the patient’s name and age, medical history information, test results and medication injection. Each medical RFID wristband has a unique code corresponding to the patient. If a doctor or nurse wants to get the information of a patient, they can simply read the patient’s RFID smart wristband through the reader. In an emergency, RFID technology could help doctors win time to save the patients by providing patient information quickly and timely.
RFID wristbands have important applications in maternal and infant identification management, infant anti-theft management, and child identity verification. In obstetrics and gynecology units of large general hospitals or maternity hospitals, newborns will be equipped with RFID wristbands that can mark the baby’s unique identity and match the baby’s information to the mother’s. To determine if you are holding the wrong baby, you can simply compare the mother and baby’s RFID wristband information to avoid the wrong baby.
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