RFID BENEFITS IN HEALTH SECTOR
RFID is a general term given to technologies used for radio wave identification of living beings or artifacts. RFID is a device that uses radio waves to automatically recognize and store identification details of individuals or items with items that mark tags.
Trying to reduce waste and increasing healthcare quality is a global challenge, and these challenges are addressed by a variety of tools, strategies, approaches, and technologies. Increasing efficiency with radio frequency identification ( RFID) technology has been commonly favored in the health sector in recent years, as used in other industries. In the health sector, the use of RFID technology in patients, staff, supplies, equipment, appliances, stock monitoring, and control has become very common around the world.
The budget for medical supplies, medications, and medical equipment composes the expenses of hospitals that consume a large portion of health care spending. To control these budgets effectively, efficiently, and offer cost-effective health care, and improve patient safety and service quality, hospitals have to use RFID technology.
In recent years, RFID technology, as used in other industries, has been one of the favored technologies to improve operating performance, achieve a competitive advantage, increase patient care as well as provide cost-effective health services. Healthcare facilities will be capable of carrying out RFID technology asset management, clinical practice, and staff management operations efficiently.
Patients can be constantly evaluated with badges in RFID applications whose estimated cost per person is low. With this device, registered users, for example, may locate a doctor or nurse. The RFID device is used to warn patients or hospital staff when entering restricted areas, track inventory items, monitor sensitive patients (children, newborn babies, etc.), and determine the position of emergency crews.
Some experienced health services’ mistakes include inaccurate labeling, packing, and inaccurate utilization of medication. Furthermore, scarcity of manpower, exhaustion, and negligence can cause mistakes. Every year many institutions alleged or convicted for improper use of prescription or wrong medication preference.
Through using technology tools that can be described as high-risk recognized systems, critical care protection systems, adverse incident monitoring systems, and emergency response RFID systems, the RFID focused drug security information systems may help prevent medical problems and increase the safety of patients.
Utilizing new tech methods at maximum capacity will lower healthcare costs by putting active RFID tags on portable medical devices. The probable high cost of medication error may be minimized or even removed with the use of RFID technology as more suitable solutions are being used. By decreasing unnecessary medical and diagnostic processes and significantly influencing medication satisfaction, RFID will also dramatically reduce unnecessary prescribing.
The best approach towards counterfeit medicines is believed to be the RFID marking system where each item is registered.
It is possible to monitor the activities of medications, medical devices, patients, and employees using RFID. To identify waste and inefficiency in existing systems and practices, data gathered from these actions can be documented and evaluated. The overall activity of enterprise applications and management can be enhanced with this review.
