RFID
Mobile Aspects
“The surgical environment is an unique setting for patient care, drastically different from inpatient medical-surgical care settings and outpatient care settings. Important operational needs such as maximizing available time for procedure rooms, optimizing case turnaround times, and having the flexibility to accommodate scheduled and non-scheduled cases make this environment dynamic, exciting and at times, unpredictable.
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18 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Hospitals, RFID, Surgery
Hohberger C et al, Biologicals, 2011
ISO/IEC 18000-3 mode 1 standard 13.56 MHz RFID tags have been accepted by the International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as data carriers to integrate with and augment ISBT 128 barcode data carried on blood products. The use of 13.56 MHz RFID carrying ISBT 128 data structures allows the global deployment and use of RFID, supporting both international transfer of blood and international disaster relief.
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15 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Blood, RFID
RFID Solutions Online
“A wheel chair costs about $150, but in a week, a hospital’s staff can spend up to $7,000 in clinical time just searching for one. Nearly 90% of all hospital patients will require an IV, but overstocking to compensate for lost or misplaced infusion pumps can cost the typical hospital $150,000 or more annually.
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15 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Hospitals, RFID
Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal
“The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is seeking proposals for its Veterans Health Administration (VHA) division from real-time location system (RTLS) software and hardware vendors—which it plans to begin accepting next month—for a $550 million RFID project to equip all 23 of its Veteran Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), each consisting of various health-care facilities. Altogether, the VISN group consists of 152 medical centers and 1,400 community clinics and non-patient VHA facilities, each equipped with RFID technology.
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15 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): RFID, RTLS
Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“A small FDA survey of nine hospitals found that the most popular use cases for RFID (radio frequency identification) technology are infusion pumps, portable monitors, wheelchairs, beds, and ventilators. Eight of the nine hospitals surveyed use RFID or RTLS (real time location services) technologies.
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8 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Hospitals, Patient, RFID, RTLS, Tracking
Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Electronic health record vendor Meditech and real-time location system (RTLS) vendor Awarepoint have collaborated on a product that integrates RTLS with EHRs to help hospitals run their emergency departments.
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28 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): emergency, Hospitals, Location, RFID, Tracking
Darren Terpstra
“RFID is quickly becoming a household subject in today’s technological world. You can’t seem to go anywhere without running into some form of it.
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28 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Hospitals, RFID
Chang Y-T et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Background
Nosocomial infections (NIs) are among the important indicators used for evaluating patients’ safety and hospital performance during accreditation of hospitals. NI rate is higher in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) than in the general wards because patients require intense care involving both invasive and non-invasive clinical procedures. The emergence of Superbugs is motivating health providers to enhance infection control measures. Contact behavior between health caregivers and patients is one of the main causes of cross infections. In this technology driven era remote monitoring of patients and caregivers in the hospital setting can be performed reliably, and thus is in demand. Proximity sensing using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology can be helpful in capturing and keeping track on all contact history between health caregivers and patients for example.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Taiwan | Tag(s): Intensive care unit, RFID
Yedidia Blonder, Bob on Medical Device Software
“RFID (radio frequency identification) is a technology in which radio waves emitted from electronic tags identify them uniquely. The tags are often used to pinpoint the location of the object, or person, to which the tag is attached.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Hospitals, RFID
Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Awarepoint, a San Diego-based vendor of real-time location systems (RTLS) for healthcare environments, will integrate its technology with Meditech’s enterprise electronic health record (EHR) in an effort to improve throughput and patient safety in hospital emergency departments.
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24 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): emergency, Hospitals, Industry, Location, RFID
Steelman VM. American Journal of Surgery, 201(2)
BACKGROUND
A retained surgical sponge is a serious medical error that results in negative patient outcomes. Radiofrequency (RF) technology has recently been introduced to evaluate for the presence of a retained sponge. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the detection of surgical sponges embedded with an RF chip through the torsos of subjects of varying body habitus, including the morbidly obese.
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23 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Medical Errors, RFID, Surgery
Joel Vincent, SmartGorillas
“The business of healthcare is more than mission critical; it’s life critical. Global efforts are underway to get all medical records electronically accessible.
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14 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Barcode, mHealth, RFID, Wi-fi
Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal
“At Barnes-Jewish Hospital, located in St. Louis, Mo., researchers are testing a ZigBee-based RFID sensor system that tracks patients’ vital signs. The solution provides hospital employees with data regarding the vital signs of patients moving about the facility, using a sensor attached to the finger, and a transmitter worn around the neck.
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13 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Intensive care unit, Mobility, RFID, Sensors
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Japananese company Asahi Kasei has developed a portable device that gives users access to their health records from a computer or smartphone by connecting to these devices through short range, contactless RFID, according to a report in TechCrunch.
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11 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Japan | EHR: EHR, EHR Japan | Tag(s): Access, phr, RFID, Smart Card
El cuaderno de bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“¿Qué preferimos? Perfiles de acceso reales o que se terminen compartiendo contraseñas… os sorprendería saber cuántas secretarias tienen las contraseñas de los jefes de servicio. Mi punto de vista es que todo el mundo debe tener el perfil de acceso necesario para poder llevar a cabo su labor profesional, ni más ni menos. Prefiero que un administrativo pueda ver información clínica (si le es necesario para su trabajo) y que lo haga con su usuario o contraseña (así sabré qué ha visto y cuándo) a que use la del jefe de servicio y su rastro se pierda.
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28 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Access, Data Protection, RFID, Security
Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Ekahau, developer of Wi-Fi-based real-time location systems (RTLS) has partnered with Salo, Finland-based Nordic ID to roll out a solution that combines passive RFID with barcode labels.
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28 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Finland | Tag(s): Barcode, RFID, Tracking
Healthcare IT News
“University of Cincinnati analysis of hospital supply chains – medicines, materials, devices and office supplies – reveals that the use of RFID technology can help hospitals cut as much as 18 percent in labor costs associated with resupplying.
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22 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Benefits, Hospitals, RFID
Thomas Lavallee, RFID Journal
“Managing patient-monitoring equipment typically used for measuring patients’ heart rate, blood pressure and other vital signs goes far beyond simple inventory control, to include the need to ensure inspection, calibration, self-test results and safety upgrades, while minimizing down time.
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6 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Calibration, Devices, Interoperability, Monitoring, RFID, Standards
Deborah Hirsch, TMCnet
“A new all-in-one medical computer will make it easier for busy hospitals and medical centers to care for patients. Called the CyberMed, this Web-server -based system provides medical equipment connectivity for telemedicine and collaboration between clinicians at different health centers.
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29 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): Barcode, Health Information Technology, Hospitals, RFID, Smart Card, Telemedicine
Europe's Information Society
“European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes has signed a voluntary agreement with industry, civil society, ENISA and privacy and data protection watchdogs to establish guidelines for all companies in Europe to address the data protection implications of smart tags (Radio Frequency Identification Devices – RFID) prior to placing them on the market. “Today we put consumers’ privacy at the centre of RFID smart tag technology,” Neelie Kroes told a Brussels audience.
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7 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Data Protection, Health Information Technology, RFID
