How Can Rfid Help To Reduce Human Error In Hospitals; How Else Can Rfid Help To Prevent Counterfeit Drugs From Entering The Market - SATO CL408e Rfid Manual

In the past 10 years, erroneous patient data has become a major factor leading to serious
medical mishaps. Research demonstrates that around 25 percent of patient deaths are
caused by the errors in patient-data processing.
Thus, the demand for fail-safe accuracy in managing patient data has become the driving
force for RFID systems in the healthcare industries in the past few years.
and even avoided.
Q: How else can RFID help to prevent counterfeit drugs from entering the market?
RFID could be used to create a "pedigree", or a secure record documenting where the
drug was manufactured and that it was distributed under safe and secure conditions.
Reliable RFID technology would make counterfeit duplication of medications either
extremely difficult or unprofitable. It can also protect consumers from acquiring access to
dangerous counterfeit drugs and eliminate these counterfeits from the market altogether
with an RFID solution. Improving the standards in the healthcare industry is a growing
concern.
In this application, the patient's name and details, such as
type, are stored in a database.
A RFID tag number is created to correspond to that database.
13.56 MHz tag technology is selected because this frequency
performs better near fluids than UHF. Each 13.56 MHz RFID
contains information about the bag and its content. A hand-held
portable reader terminal simply reads each bag and
immediately displays its details, avoiding mix-up.
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Q: How can RFID help to reduce human error in hospitals?
Some of the key policies are to eliminate errors and infections caused
by wrongly administered blood transfusions. Storing and handling
blood and blood products expeditiously, like plasma, is critical. In
RFID-equipped hospitals, patient wear wristbands with RFID tags
containing encoded medical information. This secure patient-data
system greatly reduces the possibility of human error and can prevent
a majority of unnecessary medical mishaps as all prescription bags
would also contain an embedded RFID tag containing details of the
medication. Before any patient is given medication, an RFID reader
tallies the information between the tags in the patient and the
prescription bag. Information about the patient's medical allergies, or
other relevant patient care criteria, is also highlighted on the RFID
host compute. By double-checking information between the tag on the
patient and the medication, medical mishaps can be greatly reduced
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