RFID HOSPITALS

The following example shows how a hospital system could implement RedBeam RFID to improve asset tracking efficiency. While inspired by real challenges healthcare organizations face, it does not represent a specific customer deployment.

A hospital system’s IT staff faced significant challenges keeping up with its inventory of workstations on wheels (WoWs) and other critical IT assets. 

With computers and devices stored in 32 supply rooms across eight hospital buildings – and clinicians pulling assets without recording them and returning items to different closets at the end of their shifts – they were finding it impossible to get the accuracy and visibility they needed from spreadsheets.  

• The IT team applies Zebra “on metal” Silverline Blade ii RFID labels to all their organization’s high-value assets.
• RedBeam RFID and Zebra FXR90 fixed readers automatically track every time an IT asset is removed from or added to a supply room or storage closet.
• Staff use Zebra’s TC53e with RFD40 RFID SLEDs to conduct efficient, periodic cycle counts.

• Eliminate IT equipment stockouts by providing significantly increased inventory visibility and reliability.
• Greatly improve cycle counting efficiency by  removing the need for line-of-sight scanning.
• Drastically reduce clinician time and effort spent searching for WoWs.