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The US government agreed to attach radio frequency electronic tags (RFID) like bandages to patients’ surgical sites to ensure that doctors perform appropriate operations on appropriate patients. The purpose of this label produced by SurgiChip is to prevent erroneous operations. According to records, the United States kills thousands of patients every year due to mistaken operations.
The patient’s name and surgery location are printed on the SurgiChip label. Its built-in chip also encodes and records the type of operation, the date of the operation, and the name of the operation. Before performing the operation, scan the label, and then ask the patient to verify that the information on the label is true. On the operating day, before the patient is anesthetized, the label is scanned again and the patient is verified again. An adhesive is used to affix the label to the vicinity of the patient’s operation. The hospital operating room staff scanned the label again and compared it with the information on the patient roster. Before the operation, the tag will be removed. SurgiChip estimates that this set of equipment, including labels, scanners, printers, and copyrighted software that every hospital needs to download, may cost thousands of dollars.
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