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Incorporating RFID into Healthcare

Smart labeling applications can drive value for hospitals, provide patient safety through reduced medication errors, and improve track-and-trace efforts.

The global radio frequency identification (RFID) market for healthcare is expected to soar to a market worth of nearly $4.9 billion by 2022, according to Grand View Research. Behind the explosive growth: the value and efficiency RFID technology promises to bring to healthcare organizations and the added level of security and safety it promises to bring to patients.

RFID represents a broad category encompassing many types of smart labels. According to Marsha Frydrychowski, who leads marketing efforts for label manufacturer Resource Label Group, the technology offers “potentially limitless applications for driving accuracy and value for the healthcare industry. As hospitals, labs and entire supply chains adopt RFID technologies, they become smarter. They are able to track and trace every blood sample or pallet of medication. They have real-time visibility into inventory. They’re able to monitor the temperature of heat-sensitive drugs throughout the supply chain. In the end, smart labeling provides another layer of visibility, efficiency and, ultimately, patient safety to the healthcare industry.”

RFID labeling can drive value for hospitals through diagnostic testing, movement of samples and pharmaceuticals, medication dispensing and patient care. Smart labeling, says Frydrychowski, “could benefit the entire healthcare industry — every healthcare organization from diagnostics labs to primary care offices to the pharmaceutical supply chain could benefit from end-to-end traceability, improved productivity and better inventory management.”

RFID could also address the critical issue of medical errors, that according to recent Mayo Clinic research, represent the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. Here, RFID could engineer greater process accuracy. Smart label technology that tracks and traces pharmaceuticals and blood samples throughout the hospital could ensure that every patient receives the right diagnosis and the right medication, without fail.

How would that work? Each RFID tag has a unique identification number, which would be assigned to a particular product and input into the hospital’s database, making it difficult to duplicate. And because some RFID tags can be read as quickly as 700 products per second, the hospital would gain accuracy without losing productivity.

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