St. Joseph’s Hospital, a 410-bed facility located in Atlanta, Ga., is deploying RFID technology to track and locate its specialty equipment, as well as track physician preference solutions. The system is being used to track more than 3,500 products valued at $2 million in its cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology EP labs. In this session, hear how the system is able to interface with several hospital information systems already in use at St. Joseph’s, employing high-frequency (HF) 12.56 MHz passive RFID tags conforming to the ISO 15693 standard, as well as bar codes, to link items to a digital database, where they can then be tracked and monitored. In addition, learn how the system enables the hospital to quickly generate a report of expiring products, allowing the facility to circulate to the labs for immediate removal, thereby contributing to the highest level of patient safety.
Speaker:
Lisa Stepps, Project Manager, Cardiovascular Services, St. Joseph’s Hospital