Friday, July 23, 2010

Use of RFID Technology in Health Care

For any organization or the personnel the main point which one has to keep in mind is the health care of individual. It is the field where there is loss of life with a small fault. The main factor which hospitals and health care systems should keep in mind is to improve the quality of the service and medicine.

The quality of the service can be improved by using the RFID technologies. Every patient in the hospital is to be monitored effectively. In order to meet the requirements of the patients RFID technology is used.

Applications Of RFID in health care: Wide range of applications are needed for the health care organizations. Initially there are different concerns regarding the RFIDs. But as of now, the improvements are being done in the technology the RFID plays an important role in the health care.

Elimination of the counterfeit medicines: Because of the counterfeit drugs many millions of people are loosing their lives. There is a huge loss to the pharmaceutical companies because of the fake drugs. By using the modern RFID technologies, all those threats can be destroyed. For different medicines different RFID tags are being used for making the identity process easy. Fake drugs can be identified easily.

Supply Chain Management: By using the RFID tags you can easily identify the fast selling medicines and the least selling medicines. By seeing the fast selling medicines, you can find out stock of that and the supply chain has to be maintained. Reordering of the stock can be easily done.

Safety of the instrument: By using the unsterilized or the unclean equipments infections and contagious diseases may occur. So, in order to find out whether the equipment is the cleaned one or not RFID tags are to be kept on the equipment for identifying the cleanliness.
For packing the medicines: For sealing and packaging and typing the information regarding the manufacturing date and the seal time, Read/write tags are to be used. This helps a lot while exporting the medicines to other countries.

Safety of the product: For improving the product safety, RFID technology is used. For authenticating the medicines, different authorities throughout the world are using this technology.

Tracking the health of the patient: For serious health disorders the patient has to be monitored very quickly on time basis including the heart beat rate, pulse rate , blood pressure using the RFID tags. So, always go for the RFID tags to keep an eye on the patient’s health.

Many health disorders are being reduced using RFID technology. And fake drugging is also reduced using the technology of RFID.