The Benefits To RFID Technology In Healthcare.

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• Abstract：
  

The rising implementation of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, specifically in the healthcare sector, demonstrates RFID technology as a favorable asset to healthcare organizations. RFID has the potential to save organizations time and money by providing real-time traceability, identification, communication, temperature, and location data for people and resources.

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• What's Benifits RFID Technology in Healthcare？

The Promising benefits related to the implementation of RFID in healthcare were patient safety, patient and asset tracking, efficiencies in patient care, and provider satisfaction.

1.  RFID tags provide the ability to reduce misidentification issues in healthcare.

2. RFID system correctly identified medical staff, patient ID, and medication and blood sampling data in real time.

3. RFID technology was effective at recognizing individuals and Physician time-out completion rates improved from 43% to 70%. Instrument loss decreased from 0.146% to 0.089%.

4. In the realm of newborn monitoring, RFID is being utilized to aid in the matching of newborns to their mothers and abduction prevention purposes.

5. RFID technology has the ability to improve hand hygiene tracking practices and compliance, potentially preventing hospital-acquired infections as currently COVID-19 broken.

6. RFID sensing chips and active RFID tags send and receive information by wireless radio-frequency messages allowing for automatics information acquisition and automatic sharing. This allows for real-time tracking of patients, medications, and equipment. And not need to connect to a reader device.

7. RFID can automatically track product receipt/transfer and inventory management.

8. RFID can increase efficiency over standard barcode technology by reading multiple tags at once. Tags are able to store more information per chip than a barcode, and wireless scanners that have the ability to instantly identify and capture data when within scanning range.

9. RFID provided rapid, efficient, and accurate tracking of data for healthcare supply chain members, improved data accuracy, and reduced time spent on administrative duties, and inventory related savings.

10. Accurate patient tracking using RFID technology can improve patient safety in many instances. Okoniewska et al. (2012) found that RFID technology used for threshold monitoring was effective in monitoring patients and equipment. Threshold monitors placed in 20 locations were found to have a 100% accuracy rate when detecting an event with an immediate notification

on the application.