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RFID Healthcare Case Studies

Thirty detailed RFID healthcare case studies

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Thirty RFID Healthcare Case Studies
These case studies detail a very wide range of benefits that Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is bringing to hospitals, nursing homes and care in the home. Uses include error and crime prevention, cost reduction, removing tedious procedures, avoiding infection and providing computer evidence in court that correct procedures were carried out. In these examples RFID also provides more freedom for the blind and the disoriented elderly. Staff, patients and new born babies are tagged as are laundry, fixed assets, drugs and blood.
 
These case studies form a small part of the constantly updated IDTechEx RFID Knowledgebase covering over 1,100 case studies involving over 1300 companies. A Jargon Buster explaining the acronyms and technical terms is given in Appendix 1.
 
Considerable detail
These case studies give a wealth of background detail and informed comment. They cover trials as well as fully rolled out projects, chipless (tags with no silicon chip) as well as chip RFID, small as well as large projects. Intentions for the future are given where available and those involved, as well as expert observers, including those at IDTechEx give assessments healthcare applications are just a part of this but healthcare has its own special requirements including the need not to damage pharmaceutical molecules or interfere with life support equipment.
 
 
Item level - the future
In particular, where tags will be used in very large numbers at item level, such as the small plastic bottles and blisterpacks of drugs in the home and hospital laundry, there is an ongoing debate concerning which RFID technology will "win" in the sense of being responsible for most tags sold - no one technology is expected to perform all tasks at item level. In Appendix 2 we analyse these arguments.
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1.INTRODUCTION
1.1.Some of the advantages of RFID in Healthcare
2.DETAILED CASE STUDIES
2.1.Alexandra and National University Hospitals Fighting SARS, Singapore
2.2.Alzheimer's Association, USA
2.3.AstraZeneca Diprivan error prevention, UK item level
2.4.Baptist Health automated dispensing, USA item level
2.5.Bon Secours Group, hospital assets, USA
2.6.CareCross, medical and dental network providers and managed-care patients, South Africa
2.7.City halls, healthcare facilities guiding the blind, Japan
2.8.Doctors' Hospital of Dallas, security on neonatal wards, USA
2.9.Dental@x, dental prosthesis tracking, USA item level
2.10.Emergent, patient tracking, USA
2.11.French Blood Agency chemovigilance, France
2.12.French Hospitals & Ambulance Services, patient care, France
2.13.Georgetown University Hospital, blood transfusions, USA
2.14.H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Co, tracking drugs, USA
2.15.Hart District Council, alarms for elderly & disabled, UK
2.16.IEM GmbH smart glucometer, Germany
2.17.Instituto Nazionale Spallanzani Hospital, patients, Italy
2.18.Massachusetts General Hospital blood, USA item level
2.19.MBBS medical instrument tracking, UK item level
2.20.Mediplus catheters, UK item level
2.21.Pharmacies - talking medication for the blind, USA item level
2.22.Portsmouth General Hospital blood, UK item level
2.23.Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, item level and bulk tagging, India
2.24.Royal Sussex County Hospital assets, UK item level
2.25.Sanacorp crates, Germany
2.26.Test Tube Identification, Japan
2.27.Tung Yuan Hospital fighting SARS, China
2.28.Unimed Pharma, drug tracking, South Korea
2.29.Washington Hospital Center, patients and assets, USA
2.30.Wirral Hospital tracking people, UK
 

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