RFID Patient Tracking - Electronic Portable ID

 In modern medical facilities all over the many progressive parts of the world, RFID patient tracking Victoria is now a standard procedure. These devices and its accompanying system are doing great service to the medical profession on all fronts – as a patient, as doctor, and as the hospital administrator.

As a patient, the continuous tracking and monitoring is definitely beneficial on all counts. As medical personnel (doctors, nurses, paramedics, caregivers), the technology cuts all unnecessary work for them. On the hospital side, savings in the form of reduction of unnecessary costs is certainly a boon, and this does not yet include reduced administrative and managerial work.

Portable ID

The RFID used in hospitals come in 3 different frequency levels (ultra-high frequency or UHF, 125 KHz, and 13.56 MHz) The choices were guided by such factors as being harmless to patients and the fact that they are compatible to several ISO standards.

The wristbands where the RFID is embedded can be adjusted to accommodate any size, i.e., from the small wrist of a newborn infant to those of large adults. The soft materials used on the wristlets work well with the infants.   

Benefits and more

These RFID tags are now used to properly identify hospital patients when administering medicine. Hospital insurance costs were unnecessarily raised before the use of RFID tags when sick patients receive wrong medications. With the right identification tags, wrong medications are reduced to nil.

With the storage of information and other medical data on the patient’s tag, the use has been extended to not just simple tracking but also to proper identification and treatment. The information that can be written on them includes schedules with the doctor, with an X-ray or an MRI scan without delay like in the past.

The information on the RFID tag can also include the present condition of the patient. On newly arrived patients, even information like status and the next schedules are also reflected in the information written on the tag. Emergency arrivals also have their complete medical information written on their tags so that speedy treatment (surgery and others) can be setup and prepared beforehand.

Other advantages

There are other important data written on the tracking device for easy reference to the concerned medical authorities. These would include EMR, schedules, lab tests and other necessary procedures that are relayed to the proper medical personnel fast and easy.

The process also speeds up the time spent on searching for people and needed things with the use of the patient tracking with the use of RFID. The entries are done automatically when integrated with other healthcare systems.

Historical analytics

With the data, the information gives out historical analytics of the patient which can be followed up with process improvement. The automatic system can give the medical personnel enough time to make their own real-time workflow and adjustments integrating the information from the patient’s end.

With RFID patient tracking, the safety and speedy medical attention is enabled all for the advantage of all three – the patient, the medical staff and the hospital facility.