{"id":12593,"date":"2015-11-20T00:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/?p=12593"},"modified":"2019-03-15T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T04:45:21","slug":"how-rfid-technology-can-create-smarter-safer-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/blog\/how-rfid-technology-can-create-smarter-safer-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"How RFID Technology Can Create Smarter, Safer Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1400px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With increasing population and limited funding, hospital administrators are challenged with finding new, cost effective ways to run their organisations more efficiently. The methods administrators employ to make clinical workflows more efficient must provide the best patient care, be safe and easy to use for staff, and provide easily disseminated information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hospital processes are complex. They are tied to the schedules of highly trained doctors and nurses, millions of dollars of medical equipment, and vast facilities. For these and other reasons, it can be difficult to introduce change and achieve a more efficient hospital practice. Changing a procedure, eliminating a step, or introducing new technology can be felt throughout several hospital depart\u00acments and cost centres. To be successful, you must start smart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innovative new technologies have often been leveraged by hospitals to address these and other efficiency, safety, and patient care concerns. For example, hospitals were early adopters of wireless technology to establish mobile communication networks, driving the use of laptops, PDAs, Voice over IP (VoIP) phones, and other mobile devices. More recently, hospitals have been a leader in deploying real-time visibility solutions, enabled by auto-identification technologies like radio frequency identification (RFID).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RFID systems are perfect for hospital applications because of their ease of use, and relatively low cost to implement and maintain. The system provides real-time information on performance enabling workflow improvements such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased equipment availability<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased patient throughput and reduced wait time<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More efficient communications and utilisation of transport staff and equipment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bottleneck identification and resolution<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improved quality of patient care and satisfaction<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data, management reports, and analysis that support continuous improvement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Telematics<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[698,647,695,696,234,694,697,702,703,309,363,538,230,493,701,202,699,700,359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12593"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}