Innovative Hospital Management: Tracking of Radiological Protection Equipment

Background

One of the case studies form Wayne Memorial Hospital, USA, the “Radar Find” was used as a relevant base example for this survey. This application incorporating RFID is mostly used by medical and support staff to keep track of the location and status of tagged assets including: infusion pumps, diagnostic systems, blood warmers and computers on wheels, wheelchairs and other equipment (Journal, 2018). First few related examples where surveyed in which RFID system has several applications deployed in hospitals and medical clinics. National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan: This study showed the usage of RFID for the management of workflow in an emergency department. There the application of the RFID system increased the operational efficiency (Wang, Chen, Ong, Liu, & Chuang, 2006). University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland: RFID-enabled garment tracking application (1995- 2008) was confronted with a specific logistical problem: how to manage working garment within and across the newly merged hospitals (Oranje-Nassau et al., 2018). Royal Alexandria Hospital, United Kingdom: A Wi-Fi tracking system was developed to keep track of and locate portable devices used within the medical block using RFID tags attached to equipment. The review showed and presented individual approaches and benefits for the use of RFID systems, but it unfortunately did not provide a solution for a system that can be used to register several aprons at the same time and quickly access the database to guarantee a user-friendly application interface.