RFID Journal will host its second-annual RFID in Health Care event, co-located with the 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on Healthcare Supply Chain Management.
RFID in Health Care is the one event where you can hear from health care providers and leading early adopters share real-world case studies that reveal the business benefits of RFID technology.
This is the only event where you can hear real case studies from companies that are using RFID to:
- Improve patient monitoring and safety
- Increase asset utilization with real-time tracking
- Boost revenue with automated billing
- Reduce medical errors by tracking medical devices
- Enhance supply-chain efficiencies
- And so much more!
Learn How to Cut Costs and Improve Patient Outcomes! Plus, meet the leading technology companies and see their latest solutions.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn how hospitals and health-care providers are using RFID today, and gain valuable insights into how to move from one-off applications to an infrastructure approach to RFID.
Conference Agenda
January 22, 2009
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8:45 am
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Opening Remarks
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9:00 am
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RFID Basics for Health-Care Professionals
This session, designed for all seminar attendees looking to understand different types of RFID technologies and the applications for each, will cover active, battery-assisted and passive technologies (high-frequency and ultrahigh-frequency), and explain how they can be deployed to track various assets. The session will also include a brief overview of EPCglobal's standards, and their relevance in health care.
Speaker:
Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal LLC
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9:45 am
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Going Beyond Pedigree Compliance With RFID
In anticipation of the 2011 implementation of California's drug pedigree law, Golden State Medical Supply chose to go beyond minimal requirements to become compliant, and is instead reengineering its company using a serialization solution. In this session, GSMS will share its experience in identifying its objectives around serialization within the pharmaceutical industry, as well as topics including pedigree compliance, system scalability and phase implementation approach.
Speaker:
James L. Stroud, President / CEO, Golden State Medical Supply
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10:30 am
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ROI from RFID: Savings from Tagging Hernia Meshes
Integris Health, the largest health-care provider in Oklahoma, recently completed a project involving the tagging of hernia meshes at its Southwest Medical Center accute care facility located in Oklahome City. In this session, hear the project's results, including how the company estimated an ROI of more than $300,000 due to RFID's ability to reduce shrinkage and ensure high-value items don't expire before use. In addition, learn about the company's visionary approach to rolling out a full deployment.
Speaker:
Jerome R. Gardner, VP of Special Projects and Consulting Services, Integris Health
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11:15 am
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Networking Break
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11:45 am
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Case Study: How UCSD Medical Center Achieved an ROI with an Active RFID Real-time Location System
The University of California San Diego Medical Center lowered its rental costs for mobile medical equipment and improved its overall equipment and maintenance process when it implemented a real-time location systems (RTLS). Hear the center’s original goals for improving asset management and how it solved a broad range of process and workflow problems with RTLS applications, including how it managed equipment needs in its Incident Command Center during San Diego’s recent fire disasters.
Speaker:
Scott Sullivan, Business Manager, University of California, San Diego Medical Center
Takeaway:
• How RTLS generated a strong return on investment (ROI) by reducing staff time searching for lost equipment
• How to use RFID to lower equipment inventory requirements, minimizing equipment theft and loss
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12:30 pm
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Lunch Break
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2:00 pm
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RFID in Healthcare Panel
Healthcare facilities are faced with many choices when it comes to implementing an RFID asset-tracking system, including passive high-frequency (HF) and ultrahigh-frequency (UHF), active 455 MHz systems, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, ultrawide-band (UWB) systems and ultrasound technology. This session will explain the differences so you can determine the best choice for your facility's needs.
Moderator:
Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal LLC
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2:45 pm
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Researching, Testing and Evaluating RFID for Medical Devices, Equipment and Medicines
Worried about how radio frequency identification might affect your devices, medicines and equipment? In this session, hear about WinRFID MedTest, a combination of methodology and technology being developed to enable hospitals, health-care organizations, medical equipment vendors and pharmaceutical companies to evaluate the effectiveness of attaching RFID tags to such items, and to study how this can affect those items when in use. WinRFID MedTest is being designed by WINMEC (Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium), a UCLA-based research group. This unique method cum technology enables users to identify the readability of RFID when attached to such items, and the possibility of electromagnetic interference (EMI) affecting RFID systems prior to deployment.
Speaker:
Rajit Gadh, PhD, Professor and Director, UCLA-WINMEC
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3:30 pm
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Networking Break
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4:00 pm
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Keeping Patients Secure: Tamper-Resistant Infant-Tracking System
A regional health-care provider located in the Midwest has implemented an infant and pediatric RFID security system that alerts staff members if a patient's ID tag is tampered with, or if that tag approaches an exit. Learn how employees can quickly determine which patient triggered an alarm, as well as how this system kicks into action when a patient ID tag comes close to a doorway, by automatically locking a shut door.
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4:45 pm
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Using RFID to Track Implantable Devices
Tracking the usage, storage and inventory of surgical implants with RFID is a growing trend in many hospitals and surgical suppliers. In this session, one large hospital in the Northeast will discuss how it employs RFID to monitor the expiration dates of implantable devices, as well as maintain detailed device and lot data necessary in the event of a recall. It also tracks the implants in order to comply with health-care regulations. What's more, RFID can help ensure hospitals maintain optimum inventory levels and accurately charge patients for implants used.
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5:30 pm
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Closing Remarks
Speaker:
Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal LLC
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5:35 pm
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Seminar Concludes
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