New York Hospital Queens Tests RFID Account System

Acute-care ability New York Hospital Queens, amid in the Flushing breadth of New York City, is aerodynamics radio abundance identification technology to advice it administer its account of medical accessories and consumables, including stents, catheters and filters acclimated aural its interventional radiology unit. The RFID solution, provided by LogiTag Systems, allows agents associates to abolish implants or added all-important items from a bound cabinet, and automatically creates a agenda almanac of which items accept been removed, and by whom. In addition, the arrangement enables the hospital to advance a almanac of which items were in fact acclimated during a accurate procedure, via bar-code scans. In the future, says Jed Golden, New York Hospital Queens' administrator of abstracts management, this advice may be affiliated to absolute administration software, for the purpose of announcement those articles to that patient.

LogiTag was founded in 2004 in Netanya, Israel, to action RFID solutions for a array of markets, including an alive RFID real-time breadth arrangement (RTLS) for hospitals. Its technology is installed at every medical centermost in Israel, according to Glenn Tamir, LogiTag Systems' VP of business development.

New York Hospital Queens has deployed LogiTag's Smart Chiffonier and StockBox solutions, both accumulation RFID technology adjustable with the ISO 15693 accepted for 13.56 MHz acquiescent RFID tags. The Smart Cabinet, advised for tracking such high-value and time-sensitive items as implants acclimated during surgical procedures, has a congenital RFID clairvoyant advised and bogus by LogiTag—Tamir declines to specify the bulk of readers or antennas installed aural anniversary cabinet—to abduction if articles admission and leave its shelves, and to accommodate admission to accustomed employees. The StockBox is advised for consumables, such as surgical supplies, that are acclimated alone once. If a agreed bulk of artefact is consumed, an RFID tag is placed aural an RFID-enabled box, thereby triggering the reordering of that account from the barn or stockroom.

New York Hospital Queens installed two Smart Cabinets aural its interventional radiology breadth in January 2012, in adjustment to analysis the technology, and added a StockBox this spring. If the arrangement proves to accredit it to automate account administration at the unit, the hospital affairs to install the technology at added locations aural its 519-bed facility, such as the interventional cardiology and operating rooms.

As articles destined for the interventional radiology assemblage are accustomed at the hospital, advisers attach a acquiescent high-frequency (HF) RFID tag to anniversary item. They again advance a bar-code scanner to apprehend the product's consecutive bulk and hotlink that advice to the RFID number, as able-bodied as the product's make, model, admeasurement and cessation date, all of which are again stored in the LogiTag software, residing on the hospital's back-end system.

The Smart Chiffonier is a bound bowl absolute 5 shelves, on which up to 350 implantable accessories and added medical items are stored. If a hospital agent requires an implant or added items, he or she have to aboriginal present an agent brand with a congenital RFID tag. The Smart Cabinet's RFID clairvoyant captures the tag's different identifier and uses the LogiTag software to actuate whether that alone is accustomed to admission that accurate cabinet. If admission is approved, the software sends instructions to absolution the lock, while accompanying autumn the ID bulk affiliated to that agents member's identity.