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January 07, 2007
Patient Care With RFID
-- By Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer
Hospitals and healthcare providers are leveraging the potential of RFID to add value to the services they offer their patients. Mayo Clinic, the non-profit organization, has tied up with provider 3M to manage and track tissue samples, from the time they are collected, till they reach the pathology labs. The pilot program, which employed a combination of tags, readers, software solutions and system-integration technologies, carried out at the facility’s endoscopy surgical suites proved a great success. The project is expected to enhance and improve the procedure of collection and analysis of patient tissue.
On then other side of the globe, in Taiwan, HP and the Precision Dynamics Corporation have partnered to set up a patient management system that is powered by RFID, at the Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH). The solution focuses on patient safety, verification, and identification in operation theaters, collection of data in real time, reduction of wrong-site and wrong-patient surgeries, automation of various manual functions, administration of the right medicine in the right dosage at the right time, and ensuring compliance with hospital policies for patient safety and operating procedures.
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