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Mobile Aspects RFID enabled inventory management cabinets for high value surgical equipment,  and an end-user THE HEART HOSPITAL Baylor Plano

• THE HEART HOSPITAL Baylor Plano implemented 14 of Mobile Aspects RFID-enabled inventory management systems to store, track, and manage its use of high cost cardiovascular devices and supplies.  The iRISupply cabinet units manage items such as stents, catheters, and guide wires.

• Developed by Mobile Aspects, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the system, called iRISupply™, uses an RFID tracking architecture to automate charge capture, inventory management, device expiration management, and other key operational processes within the patient care setting. The scanners and tags are supplied  by TI.

• The hospital is the first facility within the Dallas-Fort Worth area to use the RFID-based technology to automate device and supply utilization processes and eliminate manual approaches such as paper documentation, stickers, bar coding or button pushing.

• Common benefits to medical device and supply management realized by cardiovascular service lines:   more accurate charge capture, improved security and retrieval of stored items, and enhanced management of product expiration and recall for time-sensitive products.

• Common benefits for healthcare providers when automating storage, tracking, utilization, and billing of clinical resources through RFID: enhanced care quality, increased productivity,  accurate billing

ClearCount and its application surgical sponge tracking

• Prevention of “retained surgical items” – for patient safety. Just received FDA clearance last month.

• In more than 40 million operations in U.S., nurses spend 15-30 minutes manually counting surgical sponges and instruments before, during and after each operation.

• Time spent on tracking items and legal settlements cost U.S. healthcare institutions more than $1B annually.

• The SmartSponge System uses Texas Instruments Inc.’s Tag-it™ HF-I portfolio of high-frequency products to automate the process of managing surgical sponges during surgery. The sponges are permanently affixed with passive RFID tags smaller than a dime.

• Steve Fleck, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer added “Unlike other technologies, ClearCount’s RFID-based SmartSponge™ System allows users to simultaneously count and differentiate between types of sponges. Additionally, since RFID does not require a line-of-sight between the reader and tags, there is no need to physically separate sponges or orient the tags in any way to scan them. This minimizes the handling of soiled sponges by nursing staff.”

Customer Case Study: Motion Computing and its medical tablet application

• Announced its new C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA), the first highly sealed, fully disinfectable computer to combine multiple devices important to clinician workflow and productivity into one.  The C5 MCA includes a built-in RFID reader from Texas Instruments that is used for patient identification and supply, specimen and medication administration verification.

• Motion Computing’s C5 MCA uses TI’s high-frequency (13.56 MHz), multi-standard TRF7960 reader family with its MSP430 ultra-low-power microcontroller.  The IC reader family, designed for fixed and handheld reader devices, supports both amplitude-and phase-modulation receive modes and measures 5x5mm for ultra-small reader designs.

Infineon

• Contactless chips for ID management systems

• Contactless chips for Transportation / Ticketing

• Contactless chips for Payment

• RFID for pharmaceutical supply chain and electronic pedigree

• RFID for library systems

• RFID for logistics

Symbol

• Pallet Tracking

• Air Cargo Tracking

• Manufacturing Tracking

• Luggage Tracking

An extensive list of Symbol's RFID applications is at http://www.symbol.com/products/rfid-readers/rfid-implementation

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