Senior IT Managers in the healthcare sector are under increasing pressure to provide:
- Asset tracking
- Patient Safety
- Improve workflow and productive wards
- Effective use and location of medical equipment
- Theft prevention
Locating resources such as ECG monitors, infusion pumps and other high value medical equipment can cost a hospital thousands of pounds. Staff use their time ineffectively looking for missing equipment, which forces trusts to increase levels of leasing or purchasing to replace mislaid apparatus. The knock-on effect of this is patients can experience inadequate service.
IT Managers are faced with using technology as a solution to help overcome such challenges and how it can support current infrastructure - for example, LAN (Local Area Network) and WAN (Wide Area Network).
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging is increasingly regarded as an effective way of addressing these problems. By enabling a hospital’s Wireless LAN to actively track tagged equipment, this can provide the visibility and control needed to enable medical staff and clinicians to provide efficient and effective patient care.
Capita IT Services invites you to explore and understand how the use of RFID could meet these demands, to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Download your copy of Capita IT Services Guide to RFID in Healthcare now.