Baby Tracking with RFID
Infant tracking with RFID is becoming more and more common as hospitals in today’s competitive environment realize the benefits. At the same time, they can give parents the peace of mind that their babies are safe at all times. (PDF)
RFID can answer the following questions in real-time:
Where is the baby?
• Ensures that each baby stays in secured locations by strategically locating RFID readers
at doorways and elevators . When a baby’s RFID signal is picked up by a reader in a restricted
area, the system notifies the staff and security in addition to locking down all doors in the facility.
• Can determine whether baby is in the mother’s room, the nursery, etc.
Who is in contact with the baby?
• RFID can provide visibility as to the contact each baby has with any number of individuals,
including clinical staff, parents and visitors. It can establish this using the associations of more than
one RFID tag being picked up by the same reader at the same time.
What treatment and medications has each baby received? Who were the attending clinicians? When was the treatment provided, etc?
• Using RFID, the chain of contact and location is established and continuously tracked for each
child during their time in the hospital.
Through this one application of a patient
tracking solution, hospitals will:
IMPROVE PATIENT CARE
• Improve Customer Service
• Ensure Positive Identification
• Integrate information with EHR
• Track babies’ contact with staff
• Monitor babies’ treatment and results
REDUCE COSTS
• Avoid legal ramification of parent trauma
• Eliminate medical errors and ADEs
MINIMIZE RISK
• Prevent child abduction
• Prevent identification errors
• Avoid non-authorized contact with babies
And once the infrastructure is in place, it is easy and relatively inexpensive to expand the tracking capabilities to include other patients, assets, inventory, medication and lab specimens – and virtually anything else.
Dynamic also provides Change Management Support for staff during the transition to RFID. We understand that change is difficult and want to make it as easy as possible for staff to adapt to the
enhanced and streamlined processes.
Call Ralph Wagner, RFID Solutions Manager, for more information at (866) 257-2111.
DCC provides RFID solutions for health care together with Change Management Support (CMS) to facilitate education, communication and transparency throughout the RFID adoption process.
Our scalable RFID solutions improve patient care, reduce costs, minimize risks and are interoperable with your existing systems.
RFID can answer the following questions in real-time:
Where is the baby?
• Ensures that each baby stays in secured locations by strategically locating RFID readers
at doorways and elevators . When a baby’s RFID signal is picked up by a reader in a restricted
area, the system notifies the staff and security in addition to locking down all doors in the facility.
• Can determine whether baby is in the mother’s room, the nursery, etc.
Who is in contact with the baby?
• RFID can provide visibility as to the contact each baby has with any number of individuals,
including clinical staff, parents and visitors. It can establish this using the associations of more than
one RFID tag being picked up by the same reader at the same time.
What treatment and medications has each baby received? Who were the attending clinicians? When was the treatment provided, etc?
• Using RFID, the chain of contact and location is established and continuously tracked for each
child during their time in the hospital.
Through this one application of a patient
tracking solution, hospitals will:
IMPROVE PATIENT CARE
• Improve Customer Service
• Ensure Positive Identification
• Integrate information with EHR
• Track babies’ contact with staff
• Monitor babies’ treatment and results
REDUCE COSTS
• Avoid legal ramification of parent trauma
• Eliminate medical errors and ADEs
MINIMIZE RISK
• Prevent child abduction
• Prevent identification errors
• Avoid non-authorized contact with babies
And once the infrastructure is in place, it is easy and relatively inexpensive to expand the tracking capabilities to include other patients, assets, inventory, medication and lab specimens – and virtually anything else.
Dynamic also provides Change Management Support for staff during the transition to RFID. We understand that change is difficult and want to make it as easy as possible for staff to adapt to the
enhanced and streamlined processes.
Call Ralph Wagner, RFID Solutions Manager, for more information at (866) 257-2111.
DCC provides RFID solutions for health care together with Change Management Support (CMS) to facilitate education, communication and transparency throughout the RFID adoption process.
Our scalable RFID solutions improve patient care, reduce costs, minimize risks and are interoperable with your existing systems.
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