RFID Tags and Crash Carts

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Thought this was clever...enjoyed the article with my coffee this am. Not sure how you all handle this proces...

RFID tags help University of Maryland Medical Center track emergency drugs

 

[Rx MPLS]

Thought this was clever...enjoyed the article with my coffee this am. Not sure how you all handle this proces...

RFID tags help University of Maryland Medical Center track emergency drugs

I saw this demonstrated. It is completely amazing. Expensive, too, I would presume.

 

[psychoandy]

Interesting idea. In terms of cost of RFID chips and scanners I doubt it's that much. What really costs money is rph time (to attach tags corresponding to drug/expiration date) and consultant fees.

However I am not sure of how much of a timesaver it is. RFID is typically used for inventory management and tracking shipments; I'm sure it's faster to scan a tray of acls meds to check exp date, but someone still has to tag the drugs with RFID tags that have proper exp date. It doesn't really bring much to the table compared to a good tech and an excel spreadsheet.

Now if ALL meds had embedded RFID with exp date from the factory...that would be huge.

 

[confettiflyer]

It would also depend on the scale of your operations.

 

[ucrx]

I was wondering if this would be a reference to UMMC. One news source has a video of the pharmacist demonstrating the process but I can't remember where I saw it.

I know that UMMC has a ton of technology, some used better than others. I've had the... privilege of working in 2 hospital pharmacy departments that pride themselves on using lots of technology. I definitely learned that there is a difference between using technology and using technology well.

I know I hated checking expiration dates on emergency/disaster boxes during my PGY1 and found myself zoning out and having to recheck, so I think RFID could be useful in preventing some human error from checking code boxes.