Posted: May 17, 2012 at 10:00 am
Dynamic work environment in the hospital or other medical institutions, the real-time accurate positioning of important assets and personnel is often the key to the success of the treatment services. This regard there are many examples, such as do not know the recent cleaning of infusion pumps where, or need one of the most appropriate doctor, not knowing at the hospital where (not the doctor may carry cell phones), etc., of these important assets \"low visibility\" often leads to a serious waste of time and resources. Specifically, a lack of high degree of clarity of the medical institutions of the assets and personnel management system will lead to loss in the following areas:
Loss of equipment: a year of mobile devices are usually due to the loss of misplacement, theft and other reasons, nearly 20%
Nursing staff, supplies and management, and clinicians every day takes a lot of effort to find appropriate medical equipment
Loss of patient services, delay: when the doctor or equipment can not be found in time, other staff and wards can cause idle and cause injuries to rescue the timing
Can not quickly find the right equipment will result in the hospital must reserve too many similar materials or temporary leasing of additional equipment, of which most are not free is the use of inefficient
Those who can not accurately locate equipment, preventive maintenance measures are often very timely, it is expired use or excessive use of risk
Some patients without permission to leave the ward without authorization or access to other regional of their own and others\\ disease threats
Tracking solutions for the medical industry, the objective existence of these needs, based on active RFID technology to medical, its core concept is \"advanced technology, reliable products, put up a medical visualization platform. Based on a solid foundation in the active RFID technology, Shanghai Super for domestic and foreign medical institutions to provide a complete visualization solutions of assets, patients and staff in order to facilitate their day-to-day operational efficiency, reduce operating costs, improve medical services level. Shanghai Super foreign companies to provide products and services are in line with national and industry standards, these products and services can be seamless basic system of medical institutions, need to change the infrastructure, which can be rapid deployment installation.
Applications
In actual use, the internal structure of the application system will be the ever-changing, but as the front-end data acquisition tools of RFID systems deployment is similar: as shown below, the electronic tag is generally attached by a variety of ways in assets, goods or personnel who, as the identity of the unique identification of, and may collect other relevant data (such as blood pressure, temperature, etc.) to upload it to the reader, the reader to the background of the host system through wired or wireless transmission, the analysis through a specific program to parse out the useful information to stimulate follow-up to the application system control mechanisms.
(A) electronic tags
In the medical industry, the electronic tag is mainly used in the logo and monitoring of assets, personnel and medical supplies. Goods identification, mainly in critical medical assets and medical supplies, box level, one-piece items will continue to bar code. In order to achieve real-time monitoring capabilities, is currently in hospital personnel tags and most of the asset tag active-oriented, in order to better demonstrate the outstanding advantages of active technology, we will be active technology and passive technology, where possible, the application needs done comparison:
Wear objects divided into the main label of the hospital staff, patients and labels and asset tags.
1, the staff of the label
General staff label for the card-shaped, worn on the neck, according to the actual need to integrate the high-frequency or low frequency chip to use as access control, dual-band card that we normally use. In some places a high level of security, you can set the fingerprint, iris and other biometric technology, strict management and personnel access.
2, patient label
Patient label commonly used wrist strip can be easily worn on the patient wrist. The entire label with tear-resistant technology, was forced destruction can take the initiative alarm. Different types of patients need to develop a different label package style: general patient just ordinary wristband tags only for identification purposes; some special patients also need to integrate the pulse, temperature sensors, these data will be the hospital to carry out related medical service providers to help; all tags can also have the alarm function, an increase of 1-2 emergency button on the label surface, faced with an emergency at any time for help. In addition, neonatal maternal and child identification applications, baby labels using special clean package of measures.
3, the asset tag
The asset tag is often a variety of package styles, most of the strip label attached to medical devices or articles on the packaging. Asset tag according to the different uses will also be differences in general medical devices only bind a common label, just as identity, often need to repeat the search positioning assets, you need to bind a label with LED lamp with flash function for the Find specific assets to provide visual assistance.
In the storage environment, the more \"fragile\" items such as vaccines, plasma active tags, real-time monitoring, and continued to collect temperature, humidity and other features. If a feature is more than a pre-set range, the active tags require the goods to do a special logo or alarm. Therefore, the asset tag for such materials need to integrate the sensor function.
(B) the reader
According to different readers interact with the back-end database data (also known as information gathering) can be divided into a base station reader and handheld reader.
Base station reader is typically distributed in some specific area, such as corridor, door, hallway, fixed position, in accordance with the address information in the background data analysis. Base station-type reader and antenna connected to Search tags take the initiative to send a variety of data in the target area and transferred to the backend server via a wired or wireless means. Reader antenna can be integrated into one, can also be based on the actual antenna external to adapt to coverage under certain circumstances.
Relative to the base station-type readers, handheld readers use more flexible by the staff to carry or bind the repeater station in a mobile asset data. The medical staff often need to each be responsible for the patients of the chip area of the inspection, to ensure that patients in the normal state of nursing. In addition, a large spacious within, such as warehouse, search for some important items, would be very convenient to use a handheld reader.
(C) the application system
Integrated hospital information system (HIS) of the RFID technology will significantly improve hospital asset operating efficiency and level of medical services. From the current domestic situation, the following aspects of the application is more mature:
1, medical care
In many hospitals, the number of daily emergency patients great, especially in some large-scale emergency center, a collective accident, there will be a large number of wounded poured into the hospital, this time, every minute is precious, but also does not allow the slightest error. However, the condition is very similar to each wounded, confusing, and the traditional manual registration is not only speed is slow and error rate for critically ill patients do not function properly registered. In order for quick identity confirmation, completion of the admission and follow-up to the steps first aid, medical department an urgent need for a set of real-time Automatic Identification System of the wounded identity and condition information, the only way the hospital staff can be efficient for all patients, accurate and orderly rescue work.
The specific application method is to wear a wrist tag for each patient, when patients receive diagnosis and treatment, health care workers only with a handheld reader to scan the label information, you can know the need for first aid issues, such as the need for transfusion, injection drug name, specifications, has been the treatment of matters, whether there are adverse reactions, etc., all data in less than one second will be displayed in the face of health care workers, in order to facilitate them to check the medical procedures and drug specifications, quantity, etc.. The patient tag can also store all the course of treatment and drug injection recorded. RFID technology provides a reliable, efficient, cost-effective information storage and testing methods, so hospital emergency patient rescue will not delay, wounded mistaken does not occur and lead to medical malpractice. In addition, require referral treatment, the patient data, including history, types of injuries, the proposed method of treatment, the treatment site, treatment status, can be made into a new label, sent to a treatment hospital. Due to the input of all of this information by reading the RFID tags at once, to reduce unnecessary manual entry, to avoid errors caused by human activity.
2, newborn identity management applications
Newborn babies due to the similar characteristics, but also understanding and expression of lack of capacity, if not often a valid identification will result in an error identified, and bring the huge impact of irreversible results to both parties. Therefore, the identity of the newborn must implement the function of the patient identified the same time, mothers and babies is a matched pair, the baby alone to identify the existence of loopholes in management, you can not put an end to the human exchange of malicious Therefore, it is best for newborn babies and their mothers both sides associated logo, linked to the biological mother and the same encoding means. Between hospital staff and mothers, baby care, temporary transfers, the two sides should also carry out inspections to ensure that the correct pairing of mother and child.
Shall immediately after birth in the delivery room, the identity of the mother and baby in the other patient was admitted to the maternity ward before the mother and baby should be transferred to produce room. The delivery room must be prepared: with RFID identification of two non-transferable, for mothers and newborns. Identifies the belt should be the same, including the mother full name and logo numbered, infant gender, birth date and time as well as other hospitals that can clearly match the contents of the birth mother and child. We can clearly take the baby footprints and mother finger print equipment. The appropriate form to record relevant information and the footprints. Logo apart, to fully protect the security of identity objects. When someone attempt to to newborn steal the hospital wards, the RFID identification devices to real-time monitoring and alerts, and notify security personnel stolen the latest position of the baby.
3 Hospital, an important asset and material tracking location-based applications
Some large medical centers generally have a huge store base of important medical assets and medical supplies, hospital support staff every day need to find the right items from the thousands of pieces of material according to the order. Packaging of medical supplies are usually more similar to a huge difference, but the use of internal items, so the hospital logistics sector usually takes enormous human and material resources to find, check these items. Moreover, the storage of medical supplies must follow strict storage specification, the misplacement of events often occur in the maneuvers of the Treasury to adjust or items, resulting in items a wide range of damage or circulation to the market have serious drug incidents.
RFID tags to use with LED lights will make this lookup, the reconciliation process is extremely fast and accurate, and the label itself can carry the items of information can make the entire reconciliation process about 20 times faster. In addition, if certain items to the misplacement of the system by a flashing LED light to remind the Treasury Management staff to adjust the storage location.
4, the hospital contact tracing and control applications
Tracking control system and the hospitals history of exposure to RFID tracking control system combined with outbreaks of infectious diseases, immunization and government agencies can immediately and accurately grasp the dynamic processes, thus preventing similar to the atypical pneumonia outbreak of nosocomial infection control issues again occur.
Infectious waste generated by home quarantine and medical institutes in the health unit issued a home quarantine notice at the same time that the use of global positioning system to track the control of dedicated junk car shipped, the relevant units to be immediately traced the whereabouts of the garbage truck, an exception occurs can be corrected immediately to prevent the proliferation of four. Most importantly, transparent dynamic tracking information to eliminate people\\ s worries.
5, the pharmaceutical supply chain management application
Prescription drug distribution and drug and other aspects of the error occurs every year in the medical field, resulting in a number of medical malpractice, and produce large amounts of idle time and legal proceedings, according to statistics, each year in these areas caused losses of up to $ 75 billion. Improved means of tracking of drugs may help hospitals to save costs, and to curb the proliferation of counterfeit drugs, while counterfeit drugs accounted for 10% of the share in the global pharmaceutical market.
Smart labels, radio frequency identification (RFID) – through the use of such labels will be able to manufacture and distribution of any one moment in the process of physical objects to identify. RFID will play a key role in the process of elimination of often relatively slow and relatively low efficiency of the sales and distribution process, it will help pharmaceutical companies to prepare for the future, to be able to mass species more complex products. To monitor all nodes in the supply chain of drugs it can, including the precise target volume on the goods to help pharmaceutical companies to meet increasing regulatory requirements.
See from the above application, the application of RFID in the healthcare industry has gone beyond quickly find the concept of positioning, hospital HIS system integration of RFID technology will be integrated into the hospital all the assets of an organic whole for the patient to provide fast, efficient and reliable services.
Program features
Long-distance: You can identify the range of 80 meters, no need to manually close to the credit card or through in order to identify in the designated areas, to achieve automatic recognition.
Large flow: high anti-collision of a variety of anti-collision scheme can support more than 200 persons or goods at the same time access.
Support high-speed mobile readers, target personnel / goods move at speeds up to 200 km / h.
Identification card and the reader can achieve two-way high-speed data exchange.
High reliability, operating temperature -40 ° C ~ 85 ° C, waterproof, anti-impact.
High noise immunity: no special requirements on the site a variety of sources of interference, easy to install.
Global open ISM microwave band, no need to apply and pay.
Ultra-low power consumption: on the human body is a safer, more healthy.
Products required
An active electronic tag card
2, the reader (credit card)
3, the handheld reader
Appendix: the application status of the countries of RFID in the healthcare industry Introduction
Around the world, medical disputes in these few years off its peak, the World Health Organization survey, the global circulation of drugs, more than 10% of counterfeit drugs, undeveloped countries and more than 40%, the amount of counterfeit drugs around the world more than 320 billion U.S. dollars, with the wrong drug problems plagued with health care industry, the United States each year Therefore, while causing the loss of millions of dollars, the United Kingdom each year is therefore caused 70 000 2,000 deaths, Taiwan, China from the health sector doctors do identification commissioned piece number from 1987 147 years all the way up to 406 in 2001, 2005, this figure is still high, it is the main reason accounting for the highest proportion of adverse medical 24%, followed by surgery-related problems, accounting for 15% obvious drug identification solutions, has become essential.
RFID in the medical field, drug identification, holds the largest application of the ratio, so-called \"Third Reading of five pairs of\" ways the Medical Center of Drug Control, Third Reading means the kit, medicine bag, medicine cup, drugs store The position change must be carried out to confirm the five pairs of five data of the patients, time, name of the drug, dose, ways than can borrow the Third Reading of RFID to improve accuracy.
Such as doctors prescribe, prescription information to load the RFID tags and handed over to the patient receive your medicine, on the other hand, prescription data will be simultaneously sent to the pharmacy dispensing of Pharmaceutical Affairs, the kit on the RFID system will take the initiative to remind the drugs correctly or not, when drugs with RFID systems on the counter will again than the RFID tag data and drug prescriptions-consistent.
In addition, the prevention of counterfeit drugs, in addition to the bar code has been normalized to the pharmaceutical packaging, the use of RFID as a drug traceability, has also been the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for programs to combat counterfeit drugs, so that the source of the drugs, distribution channels to verify the legitimacy of the production resumes in the food industry has the practical application of case to be transferred to the medical industry is not difficult.
RFID is also used as the control of special drugs, some drugs, the kit on the reader its limitations, must be read to the approved label, will open the kit, nurses ward rounds drugs trolley also be built on the RFID system by RFID can control record nurses prescriptions, the patient\\ s medication time will be recorded in the RFID system, as future medical basis or a dispute, the commentary off the evidence.
Hospital to build RFID systems used to control drugs, also be extended to other applications, such as asset management, waste tracking, and surgery staff recognition, these applications have been introduced in the previous, next the case of other countries The possible applications of RFID in the healthcare industry.
The application of classification, drug control is still countries RFID in medical applications, including Korea, India, Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, are true, South Korea is mainly used as the fight against counterfeit drugs, Unimed Pharma, RFID tags attached to the counter sales of drugs each year is expected to use the label for one million, the South Korean RFID attempts to prevent counterfeit drugs project, started in September 2004, have paid off, 8 weeks, 10 000 3,500 drug delivery tracking, tracing, next to the experience gained from the project to expand the application.
RFID on drug control in India is born because of the requirements should be Wal-Mart, the leader of India\\ s second-largest pharmaceutical companies, Ranbaxy, Pharmaceutical, the plant built on the RFID tag anesthetics and analgesics, the use of RFID to view the preservation of drugs period, when the close of the period of use, the reader will warn managers, goods returned to the manufacturer for destruction, followed by Ranbaxy, Pharmaceutical is expected to be integrated ERP, WMS, and other systems.
Italy Spallanzani Hospital RFID chips implanted in patients in vivo, this system manufacturing and system integration of the reader by the VeriChip, the chip size of 11 mm, using the frequency band 125 ~ 135KHz, implanted in the patient\\ s arm fat layer after 20 years, the program approved by the U.S. FDA to grasp the patient\\ s medical records and prescriptions, patients in case of emergency, the medical team can read the first time the patient\\ s condition to diagnosis and treatment.
U.S. medical industry a wide range of RFID applications, in addition to drug control, the management of the baby room, the protection of dementia elderly, emergency room patients, control of blood transfusion bags, asset management, all existing application instance, in addition, special example is the process control of dentures with a particular tooth mold Dental @ xUSA U.S. system integrators, RFID chips placed in the tooth mold during the manufacturing process, specifications of the gums will be recorded in the chip manufacturing process steps such as the use of materials, colors, materials, batch number, manufacturing date, will be written to the chip, in order to protect patients, after the completion of the tooth mold manufacturing data in the chip will be blocked, and transferred to the patient holds Smart Card or other carrier, in writing in the future as long as holding the reader can read out the tooth mold data, a result can effectively control the quality of the denture tooth mold.
Use of RFID to master the transfusion, the quality of samples of blood
France RFID applications to blood transfusion bags, in order to ensure the quality that is less adverse changes in blood must be at a certain temperature, the French Blood Agency Chemovigilance system vendors Technopuce cooperation, this application must be RFID chips and temperature sensors combined with blood is drawn, is about to chip and sensors attached to blood bags on the transport, storage, sensors measured temperature will be recorded in the chip, the blood is used by reading the see all the temperature records to determine quality, and abroad in addition to France, Germany, KSW Microtec, using the same system.
United Kingdom RFID applications in the blood bags, but not of blood for transfusion, but used as the identity of the Portsmouth General Hospital blood samples and blood bags with an RFID tag, thereby reducing the generation of the blood bags mistaken to take the event, and can be low labor costs, General Hospital in Portsmouth, that if the British can fully make the mechanism to save the cost of one billion euros a year, the other public hospitals in the United Kingdom RFID systems used in the asset management, a change in the documents paperwork using RFID to manage the rental of various equipment.
Japan will RFID use in the test tube observation, Hitachi antenna design in the silicon chip, no additional antenna or chip, RFID chips set in a test tube placed in the test tube box, the bottom of the box layer device reader. to scan the test tube, reducing the time of human observation, the system is still in the experimental stage, the read time of 96 test tubes for 20 seconds, will be 10 seconds for the goal.
Posted: December 26, 2011 at 2:22 am
A gas hearth provides plenty of benefits to the homeowner, adding both warmth and ambiance to a room. In fact, a hearth is of the top amenities that homebuyers search for in a new home. In case you are thinking about installing a new gas hearth or converting an existing wood burning hearth to gas, there’s some things to keep in mind before you buy.
Obviously, accessibility to a gas line is foremost in consideration of installing a gas hearth. Most homes already have existing natural gas lines providing fuel to either their furnace, stove, or hot water heater. However, plenty of homes only use electricity as their power source for all appliances. In this case, a homeowner might pick to put in a gas hearth that makes use of propane gas logs. The difference between natural gas and propane gas logs is the source of fuel, but if natural gas is available, it is preferred because it burns cleaner and more closely resembles wood burning logs.
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Most basements provide a harsh surroundings for a dehumidifier. Plenty of basements are built with tiny regard to air circulation. Compound poor air circulation with high humidity and that’s why so plenty of basements have that damp, clammy feeling. The basic home room dehumidifier isn’t built to handle the heavy moisture lots created by basement humidity. Condensation build up on icy basement walls, windows and floors is a sign of excessive basement humidity. For basement humidity you need a basement dehumidifier.
One of the most important things to look for when purchasing a basement dehumidifier is the pints per day rate. This rate will tell you how plenty of pints of water the basement dehumidifier can remove from the area in 24 hours. The AHAM standards system for testing is in an surroundings that is 80F and 60% relative humidity. For a humid basement, a sensible choice would be a unit that can remove close to 100. Residential room dehumidifiers that remove 30-40 pints per day won’t cut it in a humid basement.
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