The healthcare industry RFID solutions provider Mobile Aspects has announced the availability of its new ''One System of CARE'', comprising RFID hardware and software solutions to enable healthcare providers to automatically track medical supplies, assets, and patients in real-time for safer and more efficient patient care.

     According to Mobile Aspects, hospitals are increasingly required to improve the quality of care they offer while reducing operational costs. Medical errors continue to increase, and administrative processes (such as billing and inventory management) become more problematic - and sometimes even overlooked - due to the complexities and fast-paced environment of many hospitals. 116.30.147.133 This article is copyright 2004 UsingRFID.com.

     A recent report from the Institute of Medicine''s committee on the Quality of Healthcare in America, entitled ''Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century'', has already made an urgent call for fundamental changes to help close the ''quality gap'' that has developed in recent years. The report concluded that a better quality of care will largely come from redesigning the systems that use IT to support these clinical and administrative processes.

     Mobile Aspects says its new RFID-based One System of CARE will enable healthcare systems to take some first steps toward achieving the Institute of Medicine''s goal of universally safe, effective, patient-centred, timely, efficient, and equitable healthcare for all patients. The system creates and monitors real-time data, providing healthcare providers with reliable data instantly for reporting, searching, and for patient/drug alerts.

     The system updates existing care systems by adding automatic identification and information technologies, meaning that hospitals no longer need to rely on clinicians to remember to complete many of the traditionally manual administrative and compliance tasks. By automatically tracking patients, product usage, and medicine usage, it enables healthcare providers to deliver safer patient care while bringing about more accurate inventory management and billing. From the system''s web-based (thin client) interface, authorised medical staff can receive and monitor real-time data and evaluate any medicinal, asset-related, or patient data at any time.

     Integrated seamlessly into a hospital''s existing information management systems, such as billing, electronic medical records, and ADT systems, Mobile Aspects'' RFID tracking solutions include the company''s iRIS inventory management system, an RFID-enabled anaesthesia workstation, a medicine delivery workstation, and both patient and asset tracking systems.

 

 

 

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