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By Priscila Macwan
PGD HCM 2011 13
RFID and Barcodes
Welingkar Institute of Management,
Research & Development
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RFID & Barcodes
Need for Tracking in Hospitals
There are many valuable assets (Equipments) and people
(Doctors, Nurses, Patients) in hospitals that needs to be tracked
to overcome the challenges of improving patient safety and
reducing operational costs Some of the problems in hospitals which leads to operational
failures are Medical Mistakes, Increased cost, Theft loss, Drug
Counterfeiting, Inefficient workflow.
Tracking devices such as RFID devices and Barcodes can
overcome all the above problems by improving the patientscare, optimizing the workflows, reducing the operating costs,
avoiding severe mistakes (such as patients misidentification)
and reducing costly thefts.
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RFID Inventory Management Radio frequency identification (RFID) is predicted
to be one the major growth areas for healthcareand has many applications such as Managingassets ,Tracking patients etc.
It can be used in various areas o f the hospitalssuch as blood bags, patients, linen and otherhospital devices. And has various benefits
One of the important benefit of RFID device in
Hospital is its Inventory Management.As we all Know Hospital inventories are vital and
their careful management ensures smoothrunning of the operations in hospitals
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RFID Inventory Management One of the Innovative Way of Managing Inventories in
Hospitals especially inventory such as linen is byusing RFID enabled closets
RFID Closets The Closets in which the inventory is kept will be
equipped with a built in RFID reader Linked to theLock of the closet.
The RFID Tags will be attached to the inventory whichneeds to be tracked such as linen, drugs,consumables, supplies etc.
The Reader and the Tags will also be linked with thesystem.
Each Employee will have its Employee identity cardalon with a Em lo ee uni ue Number
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RFID Inventory Management
Contd To open closets containing the inventory the responsible
employee will have to disengages the lock by using theirunique employee card which will be verified.
After verifying the employee's identity, based on the IDencoded on the card . the Closets containing the Inventorywill be unlocked.
When the employee removes the items needed and closesthe closet door, the lock will be disengaged and this willtrigger the RFID reader.
The reader will take a reading of the closet's contents andwill send an update to the system about the level of theinventories
When items will fall below a set level, the system willautomatically send an alert to replenish the shelves.
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RFID Inventory Management
Some of the Advantages are
Better Inventory Management without any Human
intervention and error
Real Time Data on Inventory.
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Barcode Etching Surgical
Instruments
Though RFID has many applications andadvantages in the hospitals it also has somedisadvantages
One of the disadvantages is that the RFID tags
cannot be attached to Metals because it does notgive appropriate reading.
Because of the above reason RFID tags cannotbe used for tracking of the surgical instruments
because some of the surgical instrumentscontains metal in it.
As we Know Surgical Instruments has becomeincreasingly complex and expensive and in sucha scenario there is a need for tracking them toprevent lost
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Barcode Etching Surgical
Instruments
Contd.
One of the way in which lost can be prevented is by
using a technique called barcode etching.
Barcode Etching is a technique in which a barcode is
engraved in each surgical instruments for trackingthem
Working
Each surgical instruments will have a barcode
engraved into it.
Each surgical trays will also have a barcode attached
to it
When in cssd trays for surgery will be prepared at that
time all the trays as well as the instruments inside the
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Barcode Etching Surgical
Instruments
Contd
The information about the trays and which tray
has what instruments will be send and stored in
the system
After scanning the trays will go into OT and after
using the instruments they will be kept back into
the tray.
The trays will come to cssd which will again bescanned and a check in the system will be done
to know which tray had which instruments and
even the number of instruments
The system will notify the user of any missing
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Barcode Etching Surgical
Instruments
Some of the Benefits of Barcode Etching are:
Immediately notifies the user in case of surgical
instruments lost or misplaced
Reduces manpower work of counting,segregating etc of the surgical instruments
Improved surgical tray and surgical instrument
tracking via real-time location tracking capabilities
Locates surgical instruments Easily Reduced or eliminated surgery delays in the
operating room by packing the correct
instruments into the correct trays
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