RFID TAG for Hospitals

RFID solutions help the healthcare industry automate data capture and asset tracking throughout the hospital environment. Large medical facilities continue to strengthen the deployment of RFID solutions, and some pharmacies are also seeing the benefits of using it.

Steve Wenger, manager of inpatient pharmacy at Rady Children’s Hospital, a well-known children’s hospital in the United States, said that changing drug packaging to vials with RFID tags directly pre-affixed by the manufacturer has saved his team a lot of cost and labor time.

At present, the Rady Children’s Hospital pharmacy has begun to use RFID-tagged pharmaceutical products and has seen significant advantages.

Wenger says, Previously we could only do data inventory through manual labeling, which required a lot of time and effort to code and then validate the drug data, Wenger said. We have been doing this every day for many years, RFID came along, it has completely saved us, using RFID, all necessary product information (NDC, expiration date, batch and serial numbers) can be accessed directly from the embedded label on the drug label Reading it out, it not only saves us time but also prevents information from being miscounted, which can lead to medical safety issues.