RFIDNews | Apollo Hospital Chennai taps RFID for enhanced patient workflow

Friday, June 11, 2010

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.

Ekahau Inc. teamed with India’s systems integrator ICEGEIN to deploy the Ekahau real time locating system at Apollo Hospital Chennai, which will enable administrators to identify in real-time where wait times are excessive.

ICEGEIN automated the process using Ekahau tags, allowing caregivers to press the buttons once a test is started and immediately after it is completed, allowing for online reports that will help the hospital to track if all the patients have completed the tests they have requested.

The tags also will allow hospital staff to be alerted if a patient leaves the facility before all of his or her procedures are complete.

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.

Mississippi Medical Center taps Skytron for optimizing equipment

To automatically track and manage over 6,000 hospital assets throughout their 756 beds and 1.9 million square foot facility, the University of Mississippi Medical Center has selected the real-time location solution from Skytron.

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.

Versus tapped for hospital expansion

Versus announced that Avera McKennann University Hospital is expanding its real-time locating system to the hospitals new surgery center, scheduled to open July 2010.

Utilizing the Versus Advantages Clinic solution will enable Avera more efficient patient flow and communication to family members regarding patient status throughout the facility’s 28 private patient rooms and eight surgical suites.

Hospital taps DigitalPersona for security solution

DigitalPersona has announced it has been selected by Memorial Hospital of Union County in Ohio for a biometric solution to help it meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for securing electronic forms of patient records.

Pediatric hospital taps Patient Care Tech. for workflow automation

Patient Care Technology Systems announced that Cook Children’s Medical Center has selected the company’s Amelior Tracker system to automatically track medical equipment throughout their Ft. Worth, Texas facility.

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Apollo Hospital Chennai taps RFID for enhanced patient workflow