Rfid and Barcodes

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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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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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Instruments

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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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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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http://www.hyintech.com/en/industrial_2.asp?id=123

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content/uploads/2011/data-sheets/ICALEO2006_Barcodes.pdf

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