​ RFID Applications in Healthcare

In the medical field, traditional hospitals often adopt manual recording methods for information collection and recording, which can easily lead to recording errors and confusion, resulting in property losses and medical accidents. To address these shortcomings, more and more hospitals are considering the implementation of hospital informatization development, utilizing RFID technology to maximize improvements to hospital deficiencies and inherent drawbacks, strengthening the management of patients, medical staff, and hospital supplies, and enhancing the overall medical service level of hospitals. Below is a brief introduction to a few applications of the medical RFID tags.

Medical RFID Tags Applied to Equipment Management

Traditional hospital equipment management is basically done manually by staff, which can easily result in equipment damage and loss. Protecting and consulting hospital equipment information is also time-consuming and laborious. In the medical industry, equipment issues are often very fatal. Through the application of RFID technology, by attaching medical RFID tags with study information on medical equipment, using handheld terminal machines to scan the tags, read specific information of the equipment, as well as relevant records of each use, maintenance, repair, and inspection, effectively preventing damage and loss caused by uncertain factors. Medical staff can strengthen the management of hospital equipment. During each inspection and maintenance work, relevant information can also be written in, which not only avoids omissions in equipment management work but also allows better traceability and discovery of the root cause of problems when medical liability incidents related to the equipment occur.

Medical RFID Tags Applied to Patient Management

With the application of RFID technology in the medical field, hospital patients wear medical RFID tags wristbands that record the patient's basic information and treatment information during hospitalization, facilitating medical staff in treatment and understanding the treatment situation, providing strong support for the patient's recovery.

Medical RFID Tags Applied to Inventory Management

When medical staff perform hospital supplies inventory, they collect basic information such as the name, specifications, manufacturer, batch number, production date, and expiration date of the supplies, and then attach RFID tags with the supplies information and manage them by classification before finally storing them in the warehouse. When supplies need to be used or inventoried, medical staff can use handheld terminal PDA to read the medical RFID tags of the supplies, which effectively counts the quantity of supplies, the usage records of the supplies, whether there are expired items, etc., improving work efficiency in inventory management. By applying RFID technology, the management of supplies in hospitals becomes easier, the usage and procurement processes of hospital supplies are further improved, and the use of expired supplies is prevented, effectively curbing medical accidents caused by human negligence.