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Zebra Technologies’ RFID Solution Helps Hospital Improve Operational Visibility, Quality of Care

Reduces search time for equipment, increasing staff productivity.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World, Coatings World and Ink World Magazine

Zebra Technologies announced that Det Nye Universitetshospital has selected its RFID technology for a pilot conducted at Åarhus Universtity Hospital (AUH). The solution is designed to improve operational visibility, staff productivity and quality of patient care. It includes Zebra FX7500 fixed RFID and AN480 RFID antennas, which are used to track equipment, medication and staff throughout the hospital.
 
Constructed to extend the existing Åarhus hospital, the new AUH is one of several “super” hospitals being built in Denmark. When the construction is complete, AUH will be the largest hospital in Northern Europe, with 9,500 employees and 4,000 patient visits daily.
 
The RFID system tracks 20 different RFID tagged assets – from hospital personnel with staff name tags embedded with RFID to wheelchairs, beds and medical equipment to labels used on patient specimen samples. Staff can now quickly track and locate these assets through a map on their mobile devices to optimize workflows, increase accuracy and improve patient care.
 
The RFID solution provides AUH with a real-time, accurate and fail-safe view of its resources from staff to equipment. Staff will spend less time looking for equipment, nurses and doctors are more easily located and moved to where they are needed, and patient samples are tracked in real time to avoid errors.
 
The Zebra RFID readers provide accurate data capture with integrated interference rejection; each FX7500 RFID reader has 2 AN480 antennas attached to ensure optimal scanning performance. After the successful pilot, AUH will continue the roll-out until 2020.
 
“We now have a reliable, high-performance system in place, which allows our staff to locate our resources quickly and accurately,” said Lars G. Knudsen, chief information officer, Det Nye Universitetshospital. “The feedback from our staff has been very positive, and we’re looking forward to exploring many more uses of the RFID system.”
 
 

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