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With the rapid surge in COVID-19 positive cases, SmartX understands the importance of real-time availability and safety of life-saving medical devices, such as ventilators and infusion pumps. We are proud to offer the healthcare community an efficient workflow to quickly locate and identify the status of critical medical equipment.
The cost of poor medical device management is vast and can be summarized as follows:
• Inability to find devices when needed
• Increased clinical and medical engineering time spent searching for devices
• Increased and unnecessary investment in additional devices
• High proportion of device misplacement and loss
• Increased requirement for maintenance and repairs
• Substandard device maintenance
• Compromised healthcare including avoidable delays in care and increased risk exposure
• Unnecessary rental charges for hired devices
Below you will find a summary of how IoT technology is being utilized to support current asset tracking and management challenges related to COVID-19 and subsequent patient surges.
SmartX HUB® provides a graphical user interface and rules/event engine to process incoming tag data, as well as reporting features and integration capabilities for alerting users via web message, third-party information systems or smartphone devices push notification.
Conditions, equipment status (e.g., available, clean, soiled) and location are tracked to help clinical staff locate equipment and managers understand utilization rates. Asset status can automatically change when the asset enters a certain area (e.g., in a soiled or clean utility room).
Consisting of a small chip and antenna, RFID tags can be active (Beacons) or passive, and are attached to medical devices for management purposes.
Both types of tags offer unique device identification and use radio waves to identify, and track and trace medical devices.
Beacon RFID technology can also gather and report information about status and condition, such as temperature or humidity.
RFID tags can fulfil a similar function to barcodes by providing identifying information. However, RFID offers significant advantages over barcodes.
Active(Beacon) tags for example proactively transmit a regular radio frequency signal with a unique ID which can be associated to a specific medical device. In contrast, passive RFID technology can enable more than a thousand tags to be scanned per second.
What’s more, scanning can take place even when privacy screens are drawn around beds, doors are shut ad rooms are occupied. This is because RFID readers do not require a direct line of sight.
RFID readers can scan an entire room or ward to detect and total all tagged devices, regardless of how it is occupied. The received signals are then passed to a central database wirelessly , for tracking and analysis by clinical staff and medical engineers.
SmartX HUB Platform helps you analyze, monitor and predict assets, material and physical processes.
This visibility provides you with data insights that improve decision making in resource planning,
operations, quality control and sales.