Project Background

RFID can be quite effective at improving efficiency in the medical realm. A strange concept at first glance. With RFID being the new crowd-favorite for asset management, it seems to not have a place in the industry of lifesaving. However, fast and accurate asset management proves to play quite an important role in saving a life. The medical profession quite often involves meeting unpredictable situations with very little advance notice. In an industry like that, any obscurity about current inventory can be the difference between a life saved and a life lost. Whether it be the number of doses of a particular drug or the current whereabouts of a certain tool, the management system must have real-time info on all current assets so it can distribute its supplies accordingly. However, given the emergency of certain situations, it is incredibly inappropriate to require medical professionals to have to

log the information every time something is taken from inventory. Luckily RFID can provide the perfect solution.

Solution Details

With RFID labels becoming cheaper and more reliable every day, their massive advantages in efficiency and performance are starting to be recognized by major players in all different industries. The Medical industry has certainly realized RFID's appeal. With the addition of RFID labels and POSTEK's desktop HF RFID label printer into the system, the issues mentioned above that have been bugging the medical industry for the past couple of decades melted away like they never existed. 

Currently, the system is set up so that most of the medical supplies are placed in temperature-controlled environments for proper storage. However, before they enter the storage unit, an HF RFID label is printed with POSTEK's desktop label printer and applied to the item. Before printing, the printer always reads the UID of the label first and feeds it right back to the system, so the management software is always acutely aware of which UID corresponds to which specific item. The printer can also read the UID and print it directly onto the label, so if any additional info is required, a simple lookup with the UID in the system gets you all the relevant info.

If you thought that was cool, you might be surprised to hear that we have yet to get into how RFID transformed the asset tracking process. Remember the temperature-controlled storage units mentioned above? They are all laced with RFID antennas that keep track of what's inside in real-time. The storage units are also secured with an electronic lock that requires the reading of a medical professional's badge, so the system knows exactly who opened which storage unit at what time. Combined with real-time knowledge of every item in the unit, the system is perfectly aware of who took or added items to the unit, completely removing any form of uncertainty from the whole process. The inclusion of POSTEK RFID printers in the medical industry completely transformed the landscape of asset management and distribution. No more concerns for not up-to-date info as all the item's information is updated all the time, and certainly no more worries for human error or typos. This is especially true with POSTEK's guarantee that 100% of the RFID labels will contain 100% of the information that was required at the end of 100% of the print jobs. Giving medical professionals more time to work, and less to worry about.

Competitive Edge

1.Item-level identification and tracking. Real-time information updates of all relevant items. Giving asset managers perfect confidence and drastically improving work efficiency. 

2.Direct feedback of UID to the management software and printing upon the label for human interpretation. Significantly simplifying the information update process and potential information retrieval.

The high reliability of POSTEK printers explicitly leads to an incredibly low chance for error. Making any worry for inaccuracies in the system completely obsolete