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The University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital has chosen to install Mobile Aspects' RFID solutions to allow its new congenital cardiac care centre to deliver high quality of patient care, safety, and operational efficiency.
The children's hospital purchased the iRIS inventory management system and RFID-enabled iRISupply cabinets for its congenital heart disease catheterisation and electrophysiology labs. These are part of Mobile Aspects' One System of CARE suite of RFID hardware and software that enable healthcare providers to track supplies, drugs, assets, and patients in real-time.
The University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, a US$135 million facility, provides a family-focused environment for all in-patient paediatric services at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
"We recognise the importance of RFID-based technology to enable our staff to spend more quality time with our patients and less time manually performing administrative tasks such as billing and reordering," said Dr. Hijazi, chief of paediatric cardiology and professor of paediatrics and medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
One System of CARE provides real-time data for reporting, searching and patient/drug alerts, and supports clinical and administrative processes, resulting in safer, higher quality care. Clinicians do not need to remember to complete so many manual compliance tasks, and the system tracks patients, product usage, and drug usage, which allows healthcare providers to deliver safer patient care while simultaneously improving inventory control and billing. From its web-based user interface, authorised medical staff can get real-time data and evaluate any supply, drug, asset, or patient.
Integrated into the hospital's existing information management systems (including billing, electronic medical records, and ADT systems), the system comprises the iRIS inventory management system, the RFID-enabled Anaesthesia and Drug Delivery Workstations, and Patient and Asset tracking systems.
The average hospital spends as much as 36% of its budget on supplies for operating rooms, catheterisation and other interventional labs, but captures on average only about 75% of all charges related to those supplies, according to the Healthcare Financial Management Agency (HFMA). With the cost of medical devices increasing, and their shortened shelf life, the need for hospitals to more carefully and accurately track their inventory seems clear.
Source: Mobile Aspects
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