Geodan Movida and RFID support logistic processes AMC
Between the end of 2005 and January 2007, Geodan Mobile Solutions was closely involved in the optimisation of patient logistics, input use and blood supply in the AMC Hospital surgery complex.
Geodan Mobile Solutions provided the technology for implementing location based services and RFID in the surgery complex of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam. Besides inventarisation and standardisation, the central part of the project were the following three pilots to show the value added of RFID in health care practice:
1. Patient and specialist logistics.
Patients wore a coin-sized RFID-tag in their identification wristband so they could be located in real time while moving from the nursing ward to the preparation room, the operating theatre and from there to the recovery area or the intensive care unit.
2. Monitoring the supply and temperature of individual blood products.
Blood products were equipped with a passive and active RFID tag, which led to a better understanding of the location and real-time temperature.
3. A better understanding of the use of disposables through RFID.
This pilot focused on tracking and tracing operating room materials such as implants and disposables with a high cost price and turnover rate so as to have a clearer understanding of use patterns. At the same time, patients could be charged actual costs, which contributed to the AMC’s wish of widely introducing active based costing.
Customer & need
The solution based on Geodan Movida was implemented by a consortium led by Capgemini in cooperation with Intel and Oracle. The project received financial support from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.
The reason behind this project was the need to maximize efficiency in and around the operating theatres, better measure the use of materials in operations and the need to comply with European regulations on blood quality control.
The project was also meant to provide guidelines for the widespread adoption of RFID in health care, suggest best practices and advise on the potential bottleneck of interference between RFID and medical equipment.
Functionality
In summary, Geodan Movida has shown the following functionality in this pilot experience:
- monitoring of the blood supply and temperature;
- real-time identification and localisation of patients, professionals, mobile equipment and blood products;
- real-time quality surveillance of blood products by means of constant temperature registration with a preventive alarm system;
- management information on:
- the use of blood products and disposables (per patient),
- quality of the blood products,
- patient flows. - real-time monitoring of the blood-patient match with an alarm system.
Advantages
In the end, this will lead to a better understanding of physical patient flows, the use of materials per patient and the related cost, enhanced stock management, increased patient safety and better quality care.
Continuation
Meanwhile, the pilot has ended. Here, you can download the executive summary. The idea is to continue developing certain pilot components.
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