The medical and pharmaceutical industries are constantly seeking new ways to improve diagnosis reliability, treatment success and cost efficiency, especially in areas that historically have been governed by manual processes. Medication errors, for example, rank among the most common medical errors and harm at least 1.5 million people every year resulting in approximately 7,000 fatalities. The extra hospital-related costs of treating these injuries, moreover, conservatively amount to $3.5 billion a year.
SkyeTek's embedded RFID solutions for access control, asset tracking, inventory management, patron management and product authentication offer new opportunities to reduce errors and improve patient safety, while simultaneously increasing efficiency thus reducing costs.
Medical and pharmaceutical companies can benefit from products that have embedded RFID as a feature to:
- Control access to restricted areas
- Track personnel access to medications and equipment
- Match the correct medical, blood and other treatments to the patient.
- Ensure that genuine test solutions are used in laboratory procedures.
- Manage medication and supply inventories in real-time.
- Locate and monitor usage of surgical instruments and medical devices.
SkyeTek's cost-effective, high performance reader modules and flexible, intelligent software can be embedded in a range of products to both automate and increase the reliability of key healthcare processes,, including:
- Blood transfusions
- Diagnostic imaging
- Laboratory analysis
- Medication dosing
- Surgical procedures
In addition to the hardware and software needed to implement an embedded RFID solution, SkyeTek also offers professional services to assist with tag selection, module integration, antenna design and tuning, and regulatory certification.