RFID has an important part to play in healthcare. Auto-ID
systems can help improve infection control and reduce dispensing
errors. They can help monitor maintenance activities and locate
critical equipment. CoreRFID's healthcare solutions include
real time asset location, staff tracking, maintenance management and
supplies logistics control systems.
Better patient care
Caring
for patients in the NHS and in private medicine demands effective use
of assets and medication if the resources available are not to be
outstripped by ever rising demand for services. Automated
identification systems, such as RFID, can help by improving control of
assets, increasing the efficiency of the supply chain, reducing fraud
and theft and increasing patient safety.
“The CoreRFID solution works is helping us to improve ward cleanliness by tracking cleaning operations.” NHS Trust
The cost of inefficiency
RFID solutions can help to authenticate drugs, identify the location of
assets and help in patient identification and administering treatment.
A fact sheet on the applications for RFID in the NHS is available.
Real time tracking of assets and staff
In
hospitals, being able to find critical equipment quickly can save lives
but, it can also save costs too. When test equipment can be easily
found less is required, hire bills are lower. CoreRFID's real time
staff and asset tracking system, Pro-Found, pin-points people and
equipment using existing technology infrastructures. See this fact sheet on our real time location systems.
Improved Public Health
RFID can be used to support public health initiatives, monitoring the take up of freely issued medicines or prophylactics as in this
example from London.
Important Industry RFID Initiatives
Standards body GS-1 have established a national agreement for the use
of their standards across the NHS. CoreRFID is a GS-1 UK Solution
Provider.