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Haldor Technologies has announced that its ORLocate system, an RFID-based lifecycle management and visibility platform for surgical instruments and consumables, will be installed at the University Health Network’s (UHN) Medical Equipment Resource Recovery Center.
UHN, one of Canada’s largest healthcare companies, operates four hospitals in Toronto and will use the ORLocate system to control infections during surgery, reduce hospital program costs, provide workflow visibility and optimize surgical instrument utilization rate, according to Haldor Technologies.
The ORLocate system is an RFID-based automation solution that helps hospitals improve patient safety, reduce costs, and improve operational efficiency in operating rooms and sterile processing departments, Haldor said.
The solution monitors and tracks surgical instruments and consumables, including medical sponges, as well as medical equipment used before, after and during surgery.
Deployment of the system began in mid-July and is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of this year, according to Ram Alt, vice president of Haldor. The ORLocate system’s sterile processing module, SPD, will be installed at UHN’s two large sterile processing service centers, serving three hospitals and a number of clinics and research institutes, ALT said.
Haldor Technologies will install the ORLocate SPD module and ORLocate View, a new reporting and analysis module that provides data mining and instant reporting on demand to facilitate continuous improvement in the cycle life of medical devices.
The company will also deploy its proprietary RFID antenna and newly developed RFID tags optimized for this use case (Alt said the tag products will be commercially available soon).
The system will utilize RFID to monitor more than 7,000 surgeries. “In the second phase of the project,” Alt said, “UHN can expand the management of other projects in the operation, use RFID technology to reduce the occurrence of medical errors, further improve the utilization of measuring instruments, and reduce the company’s payment costs.”
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