RFID smart cabinet helps hospitals solve the management problem of valuable consumables

In modern hospitals, high-value medical consumables are widely used in clinical practice. Due to their high prices and wide variety, these consumables have also brought considerable difficulties to hospitals in terms of management.

The traditional consumables management method mainly relies on manual recording, and the warehouse keeper registers the ordering, application, acceptance, requisition, and use of materials on site, which cannot achieve full process recording and tracking of consumables. Moreover, in actual implementation, due to the wide variety of medical consumables, only post supervision is usually achieved, resulting in poor management effectiveness.

Some high-value consumables are small in size and difficult to control, and valuable consumables are prone to loss, leakage, and dripping. Once lost, it can cause great losses to the hospital.

The loss of valuable consumables not only brings economic losses to hospitals, but also has a negative social impact due to inadequate management of certain special drugs such as morphine. So it is necessary for hospitals to use RFID smart cabinets to manage consumables.

The full name of RFID intelligent cabinet is high-value consumables intelligent storage cabinet. It can locate the area where medical supplies are located in the cabinet by installing RFID electronic tags on each medical equipment management cabinet, combined with RFID tag reading and writing equipment and supporting antennas. At the same time, it can achieve functions such as physical entry and exit of medical supplies, automatic inventory, full process monitoring, fingerprint identity recognition, etc.

RFID smart cabinets solve the problem of consumables management through the following methods.

1. Permission management

There are various forms of identification such as fingerprint, IC card, and image recognition, and there are first, second, and third level permission controls to strictly control the use of consumables.

2. Real time monitoring

24-hour uninterrupted full process video monitoring, data saved to hard drive/cloud, and monitored using wireless technology to determine if consumables are being taken normally and compliantly. If they are found to be non compliant, the system will be immediately notified.

3. Full traceability

All high-value consumables are retrieved based on the patient, and the usage information and patient information are recorded by the management system. It can record information such as the name, user, department, quantity, batch number, location, patient, and manufacturer of consumables. It can be traced through patients or product lines, and the system supports traceability management in multiple modes.

For hospitals, it is necessary to use RFID high-value medical consumables cabinets. High value consumables cabinets can effectively reduce the problem of high-value consumables loss, thereby effectively reducing medical service costs and maximizing hospital economic benefits.