8:45 AM

Opening Remarks

Speaker:

Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal

9:00 AM

Optimizing Inventory Management in an Acute-Care Setting

St. Joseph's Hospital, a 410-bed facility located in Atlanta, Ga., is deploying RFID technology to track and locate its specialty equipment, as well as track physician preference solutions. The system is being used to track more than 3,500 products valued at $2 million in its cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology EP labs. In this session, hear how the system is able to interface with several hospital information systems already in use at St. Joseph's, employing high-frequency (HF) 12.56 MHz passive RFID tags conforming to the ISO 15693 standard, as well as bar codes, to link items to a digital database, where they can then be tracked and monitored. In addition, learn how the system enables the hospital to quickly generate a report of expiring products, allowing the facility to circulate to the labs for immediate removal, thereby contributing to the highest level of patient safety.

Speaker:

Lisa Stepps, Project Manager, Cardiovascular Services, St. Joseph's Hospital

Takeaway:

• How improved accuracy of information in an automated manner provides immediate opportunities for savings on labor.
• The importance of selecting a system that interfaces with existing hospital information systems, thus saving employees time and eliminating manual keystroke errors.

9:45 AM

Disney Cancer Center Uses RFID to Enhance Patient Experience

Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center's Disney Family Cancer Center is employing an innovative RFID solution to reduce patient anxiety and improve workflow between clinicians, patients and administrators. In this session, learn how the hospital deployed interrogators to relay information from low-profile passive RFID tags on patients' ID badges to centralized applications that retrieve patient information. This information includes patient preferences to activate custom hospital room settings—music, lighting and temperature—as well as location data that can be sent to the staff's phone displays, thereby enabling clinicians to greet or locate patients quickly. Information is also provided to the facility's security and environmental-control systems, thus maximizing the hospital's operational efficiencies.

Speaker:

Ray Lowe, Director Ministry Support/IS Operations, Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center

10:30 AM

Networking Break

11:00 AM

RFID Saves Bon Secours Richmond $2 Million Annually

After five years of employing an RFID-based real-time location system (RTLS) to manage assets, and following 18 months of tracking patients in operating rooms, health-care company Bon Secours Richmond Health System has seen an annual savings of $2 million. The savings comes as a result of drastically reducing the amount of rental equipment utilized by the company's four hospitals, as well as decreasing the incidence of lost or stolen equipment. The asset-tracking portion of the deployment included tagging 11,000 assets, such as IV pumps, wheelchairs and stretchers, with 433 MHz active RFID tags, to make the management of equipment more effective. In this session, learn how the system has saved the staff time, while also cutting in half the number of phone calls placed by employees to locate equipment required for surgeries.

Speaker:

Kathy Santini, VP of Surgical Services, Bon Secours Richmond Health System

11:45 AM

Lahey Clinic Expands Use of RFID Across Its Entire Facility

On any given day, the ambulatory care center at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center, in Burlington, Mass., treats approximately 3,000 patients, while hundreds more receive top-quality care in the 295-bed hospital, 24-hour emergency department and trauma center. The center, one of the top medical facilities in the Boston area, has more than 1,500 pieces of moveable medical equipment. In this session, hear how Lahey pioneered the use of RFID for asset tracking in a hospital, and how it has since moved on to additional applications of the technology.

Speaker:

Ed Bortone, CHPA, Director of Materials Services and Security, Lahey Clinic Medical Center

Takeaway:

• Learn how the Lahey Clinic uses RFID for employee parking, external and internal doorway access control, payroll deduction for its cafeteria and scrub-suit acquisition
• How one employee RFID badge is being used for all RFID applications

12:30 PM

Lunch Break

2:00 PM

RFID in Health Care Panel

Health-care facilities are faced with many choices when it comes to implementing an RFID asset-tracking system, including passive high-frequency (HF) and ultrahigh-frequency (UHF), active 455 MHz, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, ultra-wideband (UWB) and ultrasound technologies. In this session, leading technology experts will discuss some of the key issues health-care providers need to understand when making technology choices.

Moderator:

Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal

2:45 PM

Nyack Hospital Improves Medication Compliance With RFID

When patients are released from Nyack Hospital, they are typically given one or more drug prescriptions that they must then fill and keep track of on their own. If a patient fails to take the medications as prescribed, he or she may end up back in the hospital. The medical center is addressing that problem with an automated solution that utilizes a mobile phone with an RFID interrogator, as well as tags attached to medication bottles, and a Web-based server that remotely manages an individual's prescription regimen. In this session, hear how patients are provided with an RFID-enabled mobile phone that connects to the Web-based server. The patient also receives a package of RFID labels with the name of a prescription drug printed on the front. Each label's embedded tag is encoded with an encrypted unique ID number corresponding with information the hospital has provided regarding that patient.

Speaker:

Joseph Pinto, Director of Pharmacy, Nyack Hospital

Takeaway:

• How RFID is being used to meet the goal of fewer discharged patients returning due to not having adhered to their prescribed medication regimen
• How the system can help Nyack Hospital comply with the Healthcare Reform Act, which may penalize hospitals with a 2 percent Medicare reimbursement reduction for patients who are discharged and then readmitted shortly thereafter for the same condition

3:30 PM

Networking Break

4:00 PM

Using RFID to Halt the Loss of High-Value Assets

A hospital is utilizing RFID-enabled cabinets to combat the loss of unused and unbilled products, such as implantable and surgical devices. Before implementing the RFID solution, the products either disappeared, were charged incorrectly or were moved to the wrong department. In this session, hear how the hospital has already saved money thanks to the system—in part, because workers find it easier to record a product's use. Items are thus more likely to be billed correctly. Learn how the system helps the facility to identify billing errors and thefts.

4:45 PM

Increasing Efficiencies by Using RFID to Track Assets

Several years ago, a private, not-for-profit community health-care system that includes a 770-bed acute-care hospital began employing radio frequency identification as a means of tracking assets. In this session, hear how the company employs RFID asset tags to provide increased supply chain efficiency and an improved return on investment. The presentation will include a look into the firm's future plans, as well as a discussion of how it anticipates utilizing RFID technology down the line.

5:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Speaker:

Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal

5:35 PM

Conference Concludes