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Latin America Hospital Maintains Strict Hygiene and Reduces Waste with Garments Tracking
Our Client needed better visibility into the location of textile assets, especially as assets moved around the hospital and external laundries. With a large number of items used across multiple rooms and OR, the Client needed a way to maintain and track each item automatically.
Manually processing laundry items is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task that adds operational costs for laundry operators. It also is error-prone, potentially leading to item loss and increased costs for replacement of missing items. In addition, handling soiled hospital laundry risks exposing staff to infectious disease.
Additionally, the hospital staff replaced items they thought they had lost when they were actually in an unexpected part of the hospital, leading to unnecessary expenses.
By implementing a RAIN RFID solution built on the SmartX HUB cloud platform, the customer wanted to increase the visibility of all tagged textile assets throughout the building and the solution must follow the guidelines below:
The SmartX HUB uniform management system provides a simple solution for eliminating uniform shortages by allowing us to track, sort, wash, and repair garments accurately.
The solution combines high-performance washable and durable RFID laundry tags, along with handheld and Cabinet reader systems to capture item data.
It enables laundry services to quickly and safely count laundry items, improving efficiency, reducing errors, and lowering costs.
When caregivers check out an item, it is associated with that asset’s unique tag chip. Readers scan each tag chip as the asset moves throughout the facility so Hospital staff can instantly locate the asset.
Asset movements are stored and presented in real-time making it easy to identify items that leave the hospital's facilities without permission, and preventing possible asset loss.
With the SmartX HUB Platform, the hospital laundering processes gain visibility and control of linens and uniforms throughout their lifecycle. Operations staff can easily track the real-time location of each item, virtually eliminating loss and associated replacement costs.
By closely accounting for textile inventory, laundering services can make more precise purchasing decisions and avoid the cost of over-stocking to offset shortages.
Previously, locating items throughout the multiple wings of the hospital took days. Nurses spent an average of 30 minutes per day looking for equipment. With increased inventory accuracy and the real-time location system, items are now located within seconds. Not only are items located faster, but the history of each item is now readily available, creating a safer patient environment.
Increased visibility and fewer lost assets led to improved asset utilization. Having a full picture of all of their items, the hospital realized they had more assets than they needed. With this new picture into their inventory, they were able to decrease overall inventory by identifying two redundant products, saving significant costs.
By improving the processes behind isolation gown management, this solution makes sorting linens and tracking the number of uses more straightforward and accurate. This process improvement makes reusable linens a viable option compared to disposable textile assets, helping hospitals save money and reduce waste.
RFID technology counts laundry items automatically, increasing both the speed and accuracy of accounting for inventory. The staff has more time for value-added activities such as running clean and efficient laundry operations and hospital logistics service.
With the SmartX HUB Platform, the hospital laundering processes gain visibility and control of linens and uniforms throughout their lifecycle. Operations staff can easily track the real-time location of each item, virtually eliminating loss and associated replacement costs.
Using the SmartX HUB Textile Track solution, the most important Hospital in Latin America was able to automate gown tracking, easily pull gowns from service at the end of life, and speed up the inspection and packaging processes. Using RFID tags and readers with the SmartX HUB RFID solution, the Hospital now ships an average of 10,000 reusable textile assets per day and tracks 150,000 linens and uniforms in circulation.
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