Tramelton Corporation can bring a turnkey RFID solution to your asset tracking and patient tracking challenges for any medical facility including the hardware, software and systems integration services.
Asset / Medical equipment Tracking:
Healthcare facilities invest millions of dollars in upgrading and maintaining expensive equipment that aid the healthcare professional in the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients. It is incumbent on these professionals to maximize the use of such machines to maintain cost controls and yet meet the ever evolving and extremely dynamic needs of the patients. When the equipment needed is not readily available this leads to many undesirable outcomes:
RFID technology solves all of the above by simply affixing an RFID tag to the equipment and strategically locating readers throughout the area of operations where the hardware is needed. In this way, as the device passes through a read point, it is registered in the applications software in real time to be in that area. In this way, staff will know what area of the facility each piece of equipment is located when they really need to have it. The results are less time wasted for healthcare professionals scrambling to find equipment, better utilization of existing assets that reduces capital expenditures and most importantly, a patient gets the best care available reducing the likelihood of liability because of poor health care services.
Patient Tracking Solutions:
Hospitals and Health Care facilities are more concerned these days about having the ability to accurately track their patients. Whether it's dispensing medication or identifying the individual for procedures or pulling up a history of treatment on a patient; RFID technology is a way to manage the information much more efficiently. An RFID system is used for accurately locating and tracking people, equipment and objects in a hospital. The system is designed to track hospital assets, curb excess expenditures, increase safety and ensure security and access control by placing small radio frequency identification devices, or ‘RFID tags' on people and objects.
Hospitals and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are facing daily challenges especially when responding to disasters, such as severe weather conditions, toxic chemical spills and terrorism. They need to manage a large quantity of patients from the disaster area to nearby hospitals effectively and efficiently.
The responsibility for the safety of patients, who may be missing from hospital beds or emergency wards rests with the healthcare worker. RFID makes tracking patients easier giving care takers the ability for fast, accurate identification and verification.
Newborn Baby Tracking Solutions
For the most part, the Maternity Ward is thankfully a great source for joy and celebration as new family members are welcomed into the world. The ward staff shares some of this joy by playing their part throughout the labor and the post-partum care of mother and newborn child. However anxiety levels rise for the patients, families and staff when there are complications during the labor and/or when the newborn needs neonatal care. In many of these instances the baby and the mother need to be separated, a scenario that creates anxiety. Anxiety can easily turn to anger and a possible law suit when there is a mother-baby mix up; the wrong baby being sent to the wrong mother for the crucial early bonding period, breast-feeding etc.
RFID technology will help both these difficult and challenging situations. At the time of admittance the mother is provided with a patient's RFID tag that will start the process of tracking all procedures relevant to that labor. Once the child is born, an ankle tag is provided to the baby as well and immediately cross-referenced to the baby's mother and the mother's tag.
Family Access to Babies in Neonatal Care:
In the case of the newborn needing neonatal care, family members are almost as anxious as the new mother, to greet and bond with the new family member. When the newborn needs to be in an intensive care unit (ICU) this becomes very difficult due to the restricted access in the ICU. RFID solves this problem by making available to families the ability to view on a computer monitor outside of the ICU the key data about the baby, a photograph, the height, weight, skin color and temperature after keying in, for example, the mother's family name and first name.
Mother-Baby Mix-ups Eliminated:
Even when the mix up is uncovered moments after the mistake is made, this can cause heightened levels of anger and dissatisfaction with the services rendered. Any mother-baby mix up is a potential liability to the hospital. This scenario can be guaranteed not to happen when staff follows a procedure of reading the baby's tag and then reading the mother's tag and re-confirming the match that was initiated at the birth. Tramelton Corporation develops innovative RFID solutions based on active tags, which permits careful tracking - including real-time positional information collection and integration into enterprise workflows.
Tramelton Corporation develops TRASSETRAK™, an asset tracking and location management system for hospitals. TRASSETRAK™ is a complete receiver network connected to the information backbone, which allows you to receive signals from all the badges and tags throughout one or many buildings in your facility.
The TRASSETRAK™ user interface is intuitive, and allows you to keep track of all your assets, equipments, and personnel, throughout your campus using a single user interface – shown in below figure for the specific case of TRASSETRAK™ as applied to a Hospital/Healthcare facility. The details of all the badges (separated by floor) may be viewed by selecting any building in the campus.
Smart Shelves
This product is designed to generate information of all the medicine or supplies lying on the shelf in a real-time basis. The moment a particular medicine is pulled out from the shelf, system automatically identifies the event and records in database. It also gives record of total number of medicine or supplies at a particular instant along with their names and usage history like who has taken with the time stamp. If the level of supplies breaches the threshold of the minimum requirement it will send the message to the person – in – charge. It has the ability to scan the bar coded product as well.