What's RFID Technology The Main Purpose In Healthcare ?

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• The RFID technology used for three purposes:

1. tracking,
2. inventory management,
3. and validation.

Each of these characteristics could provide benefits that could yield cost savings and improved productivity.

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• Tracking

The RFID is used to follow a product through the supply chain and clinical workflow. It can be used to track a product to a particular patient and identify the clinician who used to say product to a patient. The RFID reduces the amount of time involved in locating or tracking, thereby making the process less cumbersome.

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• Inventory management

Inventory management is the most important aspect of managing an organization. It enables managers to monitor usage patterns throughout their organization. It is a complex process that asks what (what is in stock), how (how much is it), who (who has it), where (where is it), and when (when to reorder). The RFID helps manage patient inventories so that the right assets are available when and where they are needed.

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• Validation

Validation assures that an action has taken place or that the desired item is on hand. Like tracking, the ability to validate through the RFID technology can reduce medical errors, check productivity, and help construct necessary documentation for administrative and audit purposes. The validation is an effective method of ensuring quality in a healthcare setting. The most important validating function is to verify that the patient being treated is, in fact, the right patient and that the treatment that is about to occur is appropriate.

Studies examining the relationship between the use of RFID and patient safety have been expressed as follows: Patient safety will be improved and costs as well as medication errors will be reduced considerably.

The RFID can help nurses to quickly identify patients and their corresponding medicine.

Using the RFID technology, such administration system provides automated medication verification for inpatient's medicine doses and generates corresponding medication evidence, which may be audited later for medical dispute.

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The RFID had great potential for reducing medical errors and nurse workload with high efficiency. The information technology has to support healthcare in developing practices and nursing patients without confronting any complications or errors. One critical and important part of healthcare is medication care, which is very vulnerable for different kind of errors, even on fatal errors. Thus, medication care needs new methods for avoiding errors in different situations during medication administration. This poster represents an RFID-based automated identification system for medication care in a hospital environment. The RFID makes the prevention about human error of medicine, easy and fast access to medical staff, equipment, medicine. It is cost effectiveness. All of these factors cause to increase the quality and quantity of care in the healthcare sector.

In a study that its problem was mislabeling of tissue specimens in their gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery endoscopy units and most labeling errors have been due to either the wrong patient label or no label being affixed to a specimen bottle. As a result, an initiative was created to reduce the number of specimen-labeling errors. This initiative involved the application of radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology to specimen bottles, moving to a paperless pathology requisition system and confirmation of the correct site and correct patient by both the endoscopy nursing staff and the endoscopist for each specimen bottle. Their results confirmed that these data confirm that the initiation of a new specimen-labeling system that uses RFID technology, a paperless requisition process, and confirmation of the correct site and correct patient by two healthcare providers significantly decreased specimen-labeling errors at every level in a high-volume endoscopy center. Implementation of a practical combined the RFID system that is fully integrated with the clinical system, which one day could be employed in large scale for improving clinical workflow and minimizing medical errors.