The medical industry is undergoing a digital transformation, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is at the forefront of this revolution. From patient safety and disease control to hospital asset management and drug authentication, RFID provides real-time tracking, enhanced security, and operational efficiency. During health crises like SARS and COVID-19, RFID-enabled smart tags helped monitor high-risk individuals, while in daily healthcare, they streamline workflows, reduce errors, and improve patient care. With applications ranging from implantable medical records to supply chain integrity, RFID In Medical Industry modern medicine—making hospitals smarter, treatments safer, and healthcare systems more resilient.
Domestic SARS ravaged the period, because suffered suspicion and a lot of isolation, and some SARS-infected people out of isolation without authorization, the health care workers most want to know is in the end, these people have contact with which people, and these people have been to which places, so some countries in the health care workers, wearing a special electronic radio frequency tags, so that you can always monitor their activities in the hospital, and Such a technology is Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID).
The United States SAVI company founder Rob, when he absolutely did not think of their own development of tracking technology, will actually come in handy in today’s fight against SARS, in fact, he hoped to solve the problem of his youngest son running around in the supermarket, because he will often get lost, which makes Rob feel a big headache. So he thought, if the child placed in an electronic tracking device, so that you can clearly know the whereabouts of the child, after Rob then set up the SAVI company, and developed a radio frequency identification technology related products.
But then, SAVI never put RFID tags on any small children, because they are supported by the U.S. Department of Defense, began in the military, medical and disease control on the extensive use of RFID technology.
1.Tracking of disease control
The biggest advantage of RFID smart tags lies in the manipulation of disease management conditions, with great convenience, such as the prevalence of the horrific infectious diseases SARS, Mad Cow Disease, and Avian Influenza some time ago. Or in the care ward or emergency room life-threatening patient management applications have a convenient control. The hospital for any new medical record may carry on the timely tracking, also may detect to the patient the present series of conditions.
The United States and Europe are using electronic tag technology (RFID) to monitor mad cow disease, thus providing a new technological guarantee for public food safety. Through in the cow’s ear implantation RFID tag, records the cow’s detailed information, such as its feeding situation, age, weight and disease treatment situation. And these RFID tags are actually a tiny computer chip installed with an antenna, which can be read automatically and can use wireless transmission to send these data directly to a computer database.RFID disease condition monitoring and management can provide information on the location of all personnel in contact with the suspected case, so as to facilitate accurate and timely isolation of personnel.
2.Medical System Management
The use of RFID for internal hospital management, such as: drug administration (drug administration), blood transfusion (blood transfusion), patient identification (patient identification), the hospital emergency room (operation theatre) management, as well as the standardization of medical and nursing staff. It is a good tool for hospital management, such as the collection of various surgical equipments and information around the surgery.
3.Medical goods management
RFID can be applied in the medical goods supply chain management, has the performance of goods tracking, and can carry on the timely and accurate control to the stock of goods, such as the personnel control of medical goods access, the management of the quantity of drugs and the storage position, the monitoring of the safety period of the medical goods and so on.
According to the U.S. “World Journal” report, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed to use new technology to ensure the safety of the U.S. drug supply, including the use of very easy to detect that the drugs have been tampered with the packaging, as well as the use of electronic labeling technology to track the drugs from the drug factory to the Bureau of the process, to help prevent the lawless elements in the delivery process of the fake drugs into the mix.
4. Smart tag system includes
4.1 Smart tag (Tag)
smart tag by the medical staff or specific personnel to wear with the smart tag and RFID control management system can be based on the smart tag and RFID control management system of the induction record to grasp the personnel in the hospital in the complete action information.
Medical Device RFID Chips
4.2 Intelligent label receiving device
cause intelligent label to send out the code number and position of the wearer’s readout device, can be installed in every place of the hospital. The readout device receives signals from the smart tags and can recognize them at a rate of more than 50 per second.
4.3 Control and management computer system
The application side can utilize encryption and decryption to achieve the effect of confidentiality, and can quickly record the signals obtained in the database, and from the database records to quickly find the target movement to look for.
4.4 Smart tags are worn by medical personnel.
The smart tag sends the location and information of the personnel to the reader.
The reader sends the information to the sensor system for storage.
The application system can check the movement records of each member at any time, providing timely monitoring information for the hospital.
5. Application of implantable RFID smart tags
Implantable RFID smart tags are the size of a grain of rice, but each tag has a unique authentication number that can be scanned for medical information. Because of its small size, it can be implanted in the patient’s skin, this passive patient implantable RFID smart tags, with the existing electronic medical records by telephone lines, networks or hospitals connected to the regional network, in the use of quite convenient. Implanted smart tags (patients implanted RFID) has been greatly increased in application.
6. Medical Information Management
RFID smart tags are placed on the card of the “healthcare card”, and the tags can record the complete medical records of the patients themselves. Any doctor or other healthcare professional can instantly read and store critical medical history information. This enables individuals to receive good care and accurate diagnosis wherever they are.