RFID in Healthcare - Hospital Patient Smart Room at HIMSS 11 (part 1)

Overview

The "Hospital Patient Smart Room" was designed and developed by the RFID Healthcare Consortium supported by healthcare technology companies. The objective of the Hospital Patient Smart Room is to demonstrate the changing healthcare patient environment by integrating advanced clinical devices with layers of interconnectivity among supporting technologies, such as RFID and RTLS, and point-of-care information delivery and communications devices. The combination of these clinical devices, systems and supporting technologies addresses many of the issues impacting workflow and potentially impacting patient care and safety.

The Hospital Patient Smart Room functions to enhance and validate patient information, minimize errors, and optimize the dissemination of validated patient data. This enhances overall patient environment of care and increases patient safety and satisfaction.

Demonstration

The Hospital Patient Smart Room was designed to simulate a realistic patient care environment, demonstrating the dynamic interaction between patient, staff, equipment and technology. The patient care scenarios focus on specific applications or use cases. The use cases
are designed to demonstrate how integrated systems can reduce errors, provide timely delivery of critical data to the point-of-care, enable data validation, increase patient safety, and optimize staff efficiency. This enhances the overall environment of care. Within the Hospital Smart Room, various medical devices, connectivity solutions, and enhanced communications platforms - along with RFID and RTLS systems - were integrated to create a dynamic environment of care. Specific application use cases outlined below were developed and incorporated into the scenario, highlighting solutions to the complex staff workflows and patient care environment.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• rfid
• hospital
• smart room
• himss