RFIDNews | Alabama hospital pilots RFID for hygiene compliance

Friday, May 28, 2010

The Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama is involved in a pilot study testing the use of RFID technology to monitor compliance with hand washing guidelines, according to a local news report.

Every health care worker wears an RFID badge that interacts with the facilities newly installed soap dispensing system, which also contains an RFID sensor. When the health care worker activates the dispenser, the date and time of activation is recorded.

A personal message about hand hygiene is displayed to the worker, with a hand hygiene score that lets them know how he/she is doing in hand washing compliance compared to peers.

So far the system is only set up in a small number of hospital rooms. However, hospital officials say the information gained in the monitoring analysis may help make decisions that improve compliance and, ultimately, patient safety and care, through the entire hospital.

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UM Medical Center installs pharma track and trace system

Aethon announced recently that it’s automated tracking and chain-of-custody system - MedEx - is now operational at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

The MedEx System serves as enhancement to the TUG robot, also developed by Aethon, and allows hospital pharmacies to know the real-time location and status of medications throughout the facility. Combining passive RFID technology and biometrics capabilities built into the TUG secure carts, MedEx automatically creates an electronic chain-of-custody receipt including the person, location, and date/time indicating when an item is placed in and removed from the TUG.

Innovatum adds Web-based printing, reporting for pharmaceuticals

Innovatum Inc., a Sugar Hill, Ga.-baded provider of enterprise compliance software and services, has added label printing and audit log reporting to the growing suite of Web-based modules for its ROBAR Enterprise System, a bar code and RFID label system for designing, reviewing, approving and printing pharmaceutical and medical device labels.

Texas health care system tracks patients, equipment via RFID

The Methodist Healthcare System in San Antonio, Texas has implemented an RFID-based asset tracking software in five of its hospitals, according to Health Data Management.

VA Pittsburgh deploys SmartSponge to prevent medical mistakes

ClearCount Medical Solutions announced that the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System will help prevent retained surgical sponge incidents with the use of its SmartSponge System.

The FDA-cleared, SmartSponge System is part of ClearCount’s RFID-based platforms that enables organizations to both count and locate surgical sponges. The VA Pittsburgh hospital has implemented SmartSponge Systems into its full suite of operating rooms to improve efficiency and provide a safety net for human error.

Dynamic Computer Corp. develops RFID hand-washing application

Dynamic Computer Corp. has developed a hand hygiene monitor application made possible by RFID technology, to reduce yearly incidences of health care-associated infections (HAIs).

The solution uses RFID readers in soap dispensing units that monitor staff member’s via their RFID-enabled ID badges, and capture the location and timing of hand hygiene compliance.

Apollo Hospital Chennai taps RFID for enhanced patient workflow

The Apollo Hospital Chennai will provide each patient with an Ekahau T301B badge tag that will track their movement within the 30,000 square foot hospital, as well as their current location and time spent there.

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Alabama hospital pilots RFID for hygiene compliance