The document summarizes a presentation about how RFID technology can help address challenges in the healthcare industry. It discusses how RFID can enable a "connected hospital" with real-time visibility of assets and inventory. The presentation includes details on RFID solutions from Impinj and Terso, including case studies of hospitals and medical organizations that implemented RFID to track high-value inventory, reduce costs, and improve patient safety and regulatory compliance. It concludes that RFID is delivering proven benefits in healthcare and will continue enabling healthcare transformation.
Automate Field Inventory & Medical Device Management with RAIN RFID SolutionsImpinj RFID
The traditional way of managing field inventory and medical devices is complex and inefficient. Once a kit is in the field, medical organizations are challenged with tracking product location, ensuring items are meeting regulatory compliance, and that sales are properly invoiced.
Terso Solutions' Mobile Case uses automated RAIN RFID technology to solve in-field inventory problems, giving your field representatives the right products when they need them. The solution delivers real-time product visibility, while also ensuring compliance, reducing shrinkage, and streamlining inventory management.
You'll learn how an automated mobile solution using RAIN RFID can:
- Expedite the entire consignment sales process
- Integrate with existing inventory management applications
- Reduce or eliminate paperwork or arduous recall procedures
- Simplify the entire chain of custody from point of manufacture to point of use in a hospital
The xArray gateway drives competitive advantage with new heights of business visibility and automation. This presentation will explore how xArray enables Item Intelligence with “always on” identification and location of RAIN RFID tagged items within retail, healthcare and manufacturing environments. xArray based solutions create continuous visibility throughout a facility, or across a global supply chain, building confidence in item data and allowing businesses to improve process efficiency, deliver better customer service, and increase employee productivity.
Presentation to the Hospital Blood Bank Supervisors Association (Transfusion Medicine Auto-ID applications being developed) by Clive Hohberger, RFID Systems Architect, Blood Center of Wisconsin
MegMedius International Pvt Limited provides Complete Range of Medical Equipment & Health Care Products in Karachi, Pakistan. Established in June, 2006, We are produce reputable and innovative health care products with advanced technology.
RFID is an excellent real-time business tool that helps better manage supply chains, covers goods entry, picking, checking, delivery and many other operation flows & increases profit, and decreases the cost by improving visibility into Warehouse management system.
Automate Field Inventory & Medical Device Management with RAIN RFID SolutionsImpinj RFID
The traditional way of managing field inventory and medical devices is complex and inefficient. Once a kit is in the field, medical organizations are challenged with tracking product location, ensuring items are meeting regulatory compliance, and that sales are properly invoiced.
Terso Solutions' Mobile Case uses automated RAIN RFID technology to solve in-field inventory problems, giving your field representatives the right products when they need them. The solution delivers real-time product visibility, while also ensuring compliance, reducing shrinkage, and streamlining inventory management.
You'll learn how an automated mobile solution using RAIN RFID can:
- Expedite the entire consignment sales process
- Integrate with existing inventory management applications
- Reduce or eliminate paperwork or arduous recall procedures
- Simplify the entire chain of custody from point of manufacture to point of use in a hospital
The xArray gateway drives competitive advantage with new heights of business visibility and automation. This presentation will explore how xArray enables Item Intelligence with “always on” identification and location of RAIN RFID tagged items within retail, healthcare and manufacturing environments. xArray based solutions create continuous visibility throughout a facility, or across a global supply chain, building confidence in item data and allowing businesses to improve process efficiency, deliver better customer service, and increase employee productivity.
Presentation to the Hospital Blood Bank Supervisors Association (Transfusion Medicine Auto-ID applications being developed) by Clive Hohberger, RFID Systems Architect, Blood Center of Wisconsin
MegMedius International Pvt Limited provides Complete Range of Medical Equipment & Health Care Products in Karachi, Pakistan. Established in June, 2006, We are produce reputable and innovative health care products with advanced technology.
RFID is an excellent real-time business tool that helps better manage supply chains, covers goods entry, picking, checking, delivery and many other operation flows & increases profit, and decreases the cost by improving visibility into Warehouse management system.
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Identify has developed and implemented RFID Intelligent Cabinet to automate inventory particularly in health care industry. Our cabient is consisted of short range and long range RFID technologies. Besides RFID, we are also employing cloud technology to increase inventory visibility.
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Many supply chain operations do not have the technical capabilities to meet everyday inventory traceability needs. Members at every stage of the supply chain need to be able to complete fast, accurate product recalls, identify counterfeit or contaminated products and comply with governmental regulations. Datex’s warehouse management software focuses on helping supply chain businesses optimizing inventory track and trace using a combination of industry specific hardware and software to meet your business specific needs. Datex FootPrint WMS includes powerful track and trace functionality that tracks all the way to the manufacturing component level. This feature allows users to facilitate accurate and targeted product recalls. The Datex WMS system also creates a full, detailed audit trail to show all activity data giving warehouse staff full visibility into inventory details for faster business-critical decision making. This also helps customers to fulfill the regulatory requirements for legislation including FDA FSMA, FDA DSCSA and LBMA Good Delivery Rules. In addition to the detailed audit trail FootPrint WMS users can also attach a variety of document types including Excel, Word, PDF, images, video and signature files. This will provide an added layer of detail into the already complete audit trail provided. In addition to an industry leading warehouse management system, Datex also provides a variety of supplementary supply chain services to ensure business continuity, data accuracy and process optimization. These services include electronic data interchange (EDI), business operations analysis, hardware site survey and mobile device management (MDM). Datex is also an authorized reseller of supply chain RFID devices and barcode scanning solutions to ensure a seamless inventory management experience across your enterprise. To learn more about available inventory management solutions contact Datex experts today.
Tego has recently attended the first annual RFID in Energy, Mining and Construction Conference organized by RFID Journal. Although Tego is a new player to this sector, our experience in aerospace is directly applicable to the needs of the energy, mining and construction industry. The rugged high-memory data capabilities of Tego’s RFID chips, tags and TegoView software enable storage of an asset’s complete lifecycle information, even in remote locations without Internet access.
We participated in the RFID Standardization Workshop in Perth, and will continue to be an active member in this group. For us, the workshop is reminiscent of the early days of the ATA Spec 2000, chapter 9-5 standardization groups, where Tego was and continues to be an active leader in developing standards for aerospace.
For those of you who attended our presentation about Tego, its solutions, and lessons learned from aerospace, I thank you for that opportunity. We received favorable reviews about our demonstration of TegoView software, its easy to use solutions for lifecycle maintenance, repair and overhaul activities on oil and gas assets. It was gratifying to see folks were as excited to see our high-memory RFID solution in action as we were to discuss the similarities between energy and aerospace Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) use cases.
Thank you for checking out our Oil and Gas application brochure. For more information, please visit our website at http://tegoinc.com/
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Smart equipment tracking gives
construction companies a powerful
tool to manage utilization, control
costs and make smarter equipment
decisions
Traditional methods for heavy machinery and equipment are
time consuming and prone to human error.
Databases and spreadsheets don’t give managers a complete
picture of utilization trends, making it difficult to assess and
understand company-wide equipment needs.
Smart equipment tracking, powered by Sigfox’s global IoT
network, helps managers track heavy equipment, streamline
oversight and assess utilization trends.
Real-time tracking and cloud-based data sets help
construction companies reduce theft, increase productivity and
control usage costs.
Food temperature cold chain monitoring sensors ensure better food safetySigfox
Food temperature cold chain monitoring sensors can help businesses follow food safety guidelines.
Monitoring sensors can automatically monitor temperature consistently for the most accurate data.
Food temperature monitoring sensors can send you alerts or notification to your smartphone if the temperature goes below a set threshold.
Mine Master is a mine management solution based on the the latest in long range RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tagging technology that reliably tracks the location and movement of resources, including personnel, vehicles and goods, for open pit and underground mines/tunnels.
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Bluetooth RFID REaders for iOS, Android, and Win...Impinj RFID
earn how to add RFID capability to a number of devices using Bluetooth connectivity. With TSL’s Bluetooth UHF RFID Readers, powered by the Impinj Indy® R2000 chip, you can bring UHF RFID scanning to smartphones, tablets, and a host of handheld devices running Android, iOS, and Windows operating systems—without requiring a customized driver.
Identify has developed and implemented RFID Intelligent Cabinet to automate inventory particularly in health care industry. Our cabient is consisted of short range and long range RFID technologies. Besides RFID, we are also employing cloud technology to increase inventory visibility.
How Datex Can Solve Your Supply Chain Traceability ProblemsAngela Carver
Many supply chain operations do not have the technical capabilities to meet everyday inventory traceability needs. Members at every stage of the supply chain need to be able to complete fast, accurate product recalls, identify counterfeit or contaminated products and comply with governmental regulations. Datex’s warehouse management software focuses on helping supply chain businesses optimizing inventory track and trace using a combination of industry specific hardware and software to meet your business specific needs. Datex FootPrint WMS includes powerful track and trace functionality that tracks all the way to the manufacturing component level. This feature allows users to facilitate accurate and targeted product recalls. The Datex WMS system also creates a full, detailed audit trail to show all activity data giving warehouse staff full visibility into inventory details for faster business-critical decision making. This also helps customers to fulfill the regulatory requirements for legislation including FDA FSMA, FDA DSCSA and LBMA Good Delivery Rules. In addition to the detailed audit trail FootPrint WMS users can also attach a variety of document types including Excel, Word, PDF, images, video and signature files. This will provide an added layer of detail into the already complete audit trail provided. In addition to an industry leading warehouse management system, Datex also provides a variety of supplementary supply chain services to ensure business continuity, data accuracy and process optimization. These services include electronic data interchange (EDI), business operations analysis, hardware site survey and mobile device management (MDM). Datex is also an authorized reseller of supply chain RFID devices and barcode scanning solutions to ensure a seamless inventory management experience across your enterprise. To learn more about available inventory management solutions contact Datex experts today.
Tego has recently attended the first annual RFID in Energy, Mining and Construction Conference organized by RFID Journal. Although Tego is a new player to this sector, our experience in aerospace is directly applicable to the needs of the energy, mining and construction industry. The rugged high-memory data capabilities of Tego’s RFID chips, tags and TegoView software enable storage of an asset’s complete lifecycle information, even in remote locations without Internet access.
We participated in the RFID Standardization Workshop in Perth, and will continue to be an active member in this group. For us, the workshop is reminiscent of the early days of the ATA Spec 2000, chapter 9-5 standardization groups, where Tego was and continues to be an active leader in developing standards for aerospace.
For those of you who attended our presentation about Tego, its solutions, and lessons learned from aerospace, I thank you for that opportunity. We received favorable reviews about our demonstration of TegoView software, its easy to use solutions for lifecycle maintenance, repair and overhaul activities on oil and gas assets. It was gratifying to see folks were as excited to see our high-memory RFID solution in action as we were to discuss the similarities between energy and aerospace Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) use cases.
Thank you for checking out our Oil and Gas application brochure. For more information, please visit our website at http://tegoinc.com/
Stockare RFID Solutions - RFID ApplicationsLander Unanue
Some examples of RFID Applications and explanation of the benefits that the system can deliver. It has the technical explanation also. For more info: stockare.com
Traceability is the ability to verify the history, location, or application of an item by means of documented recorded identification. The presentation dedicated to introduce its concepts, requirements and benefits in supply chain management.
IoT changes the way construction equipment is tracked on the jobsiteSigfox
Smart equipment tracking gives
construction companies a powerful
tool to manage utilization, control
costs and make smarter equipment
decisions
Traditional methods for heavy machinery and equipment are
time consuming and prone to human error.
Databases and spreadsheets don’t give managers a complete
picture of utilization trends, making it difficult to assess and
understand company-wide equipment needs.
Smart equipment tracking, powered by Sigfox’s global IoT
network, helps managers track heavy equipment, streamline
oversight and assess utilization trends.
Real-time tracking and cloud-based data sets help
construction companies reduce theft, increase productivity and
control usage costs.
Food temperature cold chain monitoring sensors ensure better food safetySigfox
Food temperature cold chain monitoring sensors can help businesses follow food safety guidelines.
Monitoring sensors can automatically monitor temperature consistently for the most accurate data.
Food temperature monitoring sensors can send you alerts or notification to your smartphone if the temperature goes below a set threshold.
Mine Master is a mine management solution based on the the latest in long range RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tagging technology that reliably tracks the location and movement of resources, including personnel, vehicles and goods, for open pit and underground mines/tunnels.
This is a short presentation of the paper 'Designing with RFID' held at the 'Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2009' conference in Cambridge UK.
In 'Designing with RFID' we explore the potential for RFID objects in everyday contexts. Because RFID is a wireless, radio-based technology it is inherently invisible once embedded, and this raises issues around visibility and interaction. How does the addition of hidden interactive qualities influence the design of physical RFID objects? There is a need to develop tangible design qualities such as shape, materials, build quality and affordances for RFID-enabled objects.
The full paper can be found here: http://www.nearfield.org/2009/02/designing-with-rfid
This presentation comes out of the Touch project at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design : nearfield.org
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2. September 2013
Today’s Presenters & Agenda
Tracy Hillstrom
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Impinj, Inc.
Joe Pleshek
President & CEO
Terso Solutions, Inc.
Impinj
• Healthcare Provider Woes
• The Connected Hospital
• RFID Technology
• About Impinj
Terso Solutions
• Introduction to Terso Solutions
• Key Challenges in Healthcare
• How Can RFID Help?
• What Is the ROI?
Question & Answer Session
3. September 2013
Current levels
of revenue and
profit are not
sustainable
Health spending in the US has grown nearly 5
times that of GDP since 1960.1
Delivery of
quality care is
hindered by
overloaded
humans
“We found that 25% of clinical staff’s time is spent
looking for things, and 10-15% of their time in the
OR is spent looking for instruments.”2
Inventories
have grown out
of control
“…the healthcare industry has half a trillion dollars
tied up in inventory.”2
“Product recalls, now occur about 15 times per
week in medical devices and 20 times per week in
pharmaceuticals in the U.S. alone”2
Healthcare Provider Woes
1. March 12, 2013, Time Magazine, “The Bitter Pill”
2. October, 2012, McKinsey & Company, “Strength in unity: The promise of
global standards in healthcare.”
4. September 2013
The Connected Hospital
• The Connected Hospital allows for automated data
collection and real-time access to information at
point-of-service
– Asset Tracking, Surgical Instrument Tracking
– Patient Workflow Optimization
– Inventory Optimization
– Pharmacy
– Compliance (5 Rights, Hygiene)
– Patient Safety (infants, eldercare)
– Temperature Monitoring
– Equipment Maintenance
• Key requirements
– Data collection without human intervention
– Item identification
6. September 2013
About Impinj, Inc.
Leading provider of UHF RFID
solutions for identifying, locating, and
authenticating items
• Innovative product portfolio
– Tag chips
– Reader chips
– Readers & antennas
• Enabling numerous industries
– Retail
– Pharmaceutical
– Food and beverage
– Consumer electronics
– Manufacturing
– Logistics
7. September 2013
Terso Background
Terso’s inventory management solution integrates RFID
enabled cabinets, refrigerators, and freezers with a
RFID data platform and 24/7 support services to
effectively monitor product inventory any time of the
day or night.
• Formed in 2005 by Promega
• Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin
• European facility in Mannheim, Germany
Commercially-proven
• Fifteen patents secured for Terso RFID solutions
• 12 years of continuous use
• Over 1,400 implementations worldwide
• Over 12,000,000 operational hours
9. September 2013
How the Solution Works
Place Internet
enabled
RFID cabinet at
the point of use
Pre-authorized
users access the
cabinet with
RFID cards
Users add and/or
remove RFID tagged
inventory from the
cabinet
Access the web-based,
system for global
visibility, 24/7 operation,
and remote access to
individual units
11. September 2013
Key Drivers in Healthcare
• Aging population
• Expenditures increase significantly with age
• Customization in treatment – innovation is driving costs
up
• Decreasing reimbursement
• Hospital employed MD’s
• Healthcare legislation
• Regulatory requirements
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12. September 2013
Key Drivers in Healthcare
• Strong growth in emerging markets
• Increasing supply chain complexity
• Increased need for cold chain storage and
transportation
• Growing need to capture data tying patient,
procedure and outcome together
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13. September 2013
Supply Chain Challenges in Healthcare
• Significant amount of high value inventory in the healthcare
supply chain (stock rooms, trunk stock, etc.)
• 7 – 10% inventory expiration/obsolescence rates/year
• Hospital staff spend 10 – 30% of their time tracking inventory
• Lost inventory / shrinkage – items are not property charged to
the patient
• Little “point of use” data is shared between hospitals and
providers in real time
• Regulator audits are increasing creating additional
documentation and training
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Source data: 2008 Gartner/AMR, primary market research with multiple MD&D companies and
Medical Device Supply Chain Council
14. September 2013
Key Needs
Providers
• Visibility and control of product purchases
• Improved charge capture of products used in procedures
• Reduced labor managing inventory
• Consignment inventory
• Robust compliance practices
Suppliers
• Demand visibility as “real time” as possible
• Lower inventory levels leading to less obsolescence
• Reduced labor managing inventory
• New supply chain and service models
• Robust compliance practices
15. September 2013
Case Study -
15
Business Challenge
A large teaching hospital and primary care center needed a system to
store, track, and manage the use of high cost items, such as heart valves.
Their goal was to improve workflow by eliminating manual transactions
for heart valve inventory, reduce operating costs, and improve patient
safety.
Solution
Implemented Terso's RFID enabled inventory management solution to:
• Provide complete visibility to the heart valves at any time
• Ensure patient safety by sending proactive alerts for products close to expiration
• Acknowledge and monitor all products without requiring a direct line of sight
Results
• Increased time spent on patient care
• Reduced amount of time nurses spent tracking movement of heart valves
• Doctors and nurses more prepared for scheduled cases
• Reduced number of lost heart valves
• Ensured patients are properly charged for products consumed
16. September 2013
Case Study -
16
Business Challenge
A leading medical device company needs a solution to automate the inventory
reconciliation process for human tissue implants.
To meet regulatory compliance the company would manually record inventory
at hospitals and distributors each month consuming valuable time.
Solution
• Implemented RFID enabled inventory management solution
• Automatically record the activity of each tissue implant and temperature
• Provide real-time visibility of current inventory levels
• Send proactive alerts for products close to expiration
Results
• Eliminated 15,000 hours reconciliation time per year
• Improved regulatory compliance with automated temperatures
• Increased revenue from accounts with this value added service
• RFID cabinets enabled on-line replenishment processing
17. September 2013
Case Study -
17
Business Challenge
A leading provider of software to hospitals use to track valuable inventory including
all implantable devices and tissue graphs
• The software enables hospitals to optimize inventory levels and meet regulatory
compliance requirements
• To move inventory from one location to another (central supply to operating room)
users have to manually transfer the item
Solution
Integrated Terso’s RFID enabled enclosures including -80 degree freezers into
Champion software via Terso’s RFID data platform
Results
• Reduced manual inventory tracking by over 40%
• Reduced data entry errors into the system
• More timely point-of-use data for inventory is integrated with EMR systems
18. September 2013
Case Study – Stowers Institute for Medical Research
• Eliminated the need for data entry and reduced the checkout time to mere
seconds rather than minutes. Average total checkout time for a researcher
is 15 seconds.
• 70% reduction in shrinkage and expired product write offs.
• Eliminated hundreds of hours of work in tracking down missing products and
reconciling missing inventory.
• Gave the researchers more hands-on opportunities to consider new products
Business Problem
• Lack of customer service from solution provider.
Current system lacked functionality they require
• System able to be ‘tricked’ once opened; no item
level tracking
• Many manual processes to reconcile transactions
• Significant shrinkage; more than 6 items per week
Results
Solution
• RFID enabled Smart Stockroom with self check-out
• Doorway RFID portals integrated with video cameras ensure all
products are tracked entering and leaving the stockroom
20. September 2013
What Can We Conclude?
RFID can help enable the connected hospital!
• Bring “real time” visibility to high value inventory
• Connect product usage to patient record via integrated
systems
• Reduce labor costs by automating inventory management
• Enhance patient safety and regulatory compliance
• Track consignment and better manage vendor trunk stock
• Enable improved collaboration between providers and
suppliers
• Data analytics
• Inventory optimization and control
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RFID is delivering proven benefits in healthcare today and will be an enabling
technology for healthcare transformation in the future.
21. September 2013
Questions & Answers
Joe Pleshek
President and CEO
joe.pleshek@tersosolutions.com
Tracy Hillstrom
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
tracy.hillstrom@impinj.com