RFIDNews | Mississippi Medical Center taps Skytron for optimizing equipment

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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.

Skytron asset tags, powered by Awarepoint, broadcast low power radio messages that enable the medical center to quickly locate specific assets and provide real-time information about their movement and status.

With easy access to the real-time locating system via a desktop icon, all authorized employees can easily locate needed equipment as well as the nearest available equipment in real-time situations.

This provides an enhanced means to locate equipment such as infusion pumps, telemetry, wheelchairs and other mobile assets that are critical in delivering quality patient care. Equipment can now be utilized more efficiently, improving work flows and positively impacting patient care and operation efficiency.

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.

N.J. medical center tracks equipment and patients

Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, N.J., is using IBM’s real-time locating services, along with Sonitor Technologies’ infrastructure to track medical equipment and ensure compliance with patient safety regulations.

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.

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.

ClearCount Medical Solutions obtains new financing

ClearCount Medical Solutions, a Pittsburgh-based provider of patient safety products for the operating room, has closed its $5 million series B financing round.

The company intends to use the funds to further research and development of its RFID-based solutions for operating rooms. ClearCount has already developed the first FDA-cleared sponge counting and detection solution.

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.

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Mississippi Medical Center taps Skytron for optimizing equipment