Mexican hospital uses real-time location system to track patients and assets
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General Hospital, located in the midwestern region of Mexico, now uses active, Wi-Fi-based RFID technology to track patients, staff and assets, becoming the first digital hospital in Mexico.
In a two-story, 70-bed building in General Hospital, AeroScout cooperated with the hospital to install an RFID real-time positioning system. The system combines active 2.4GHz RFID tags and Cisco positioning equipment, and calculates the location of the tags by processing the data of the tags and various Cisco Wi-Fi access control points. In addition, the system also includes AeroScout MobileView software, which can depict location information in the form of a map in a report or report.
AeroScout Latin area manager Ricardo Berrios said that in early 2007, General Hospital began to install the AeroScout real-time location system on the second floor of the building to track patients and employees, and installed several Wi-Fi access points. When a patient wearing an RFID wristband enters and exits various areas, the staff can realize real-time tracking. Through the two large LCD screens on the wall, medical staff can check the patient’s location instantly, as well as the hospital’s computer and their MCA.
Each RFID wristband contains an active, reusable RFID Wi-Fi tag. The label contains a unique ID number, which is linked to the patient’s data in the hospital’s back-end system. When the patient was discharged from the hospital, the staff cut off the wristband, took out the label, and put it to use again. Currently, General Hospital has a total of 250-300 tags in circulation.
RFID wristband
General Hospital hopes that in the future all patients admitted to the hospital will wear RFID wristbands, including doctors and nurses. At the end of this year, the hospital will enter the next stage of application, installing a real-time positioning system in the main building of the hospital, Berrios said. Then the hospital will label all assets, including wheelchairs, single racks, water pumps, etc.
According to Berrios, the real-time positioning system helps hospitals improve patient care services by knowing the location of patients in real time.
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