RFID Hospital: Columbus Children's Hospital To Install RFID System From Mobile Aspects
The Heart Center at Columbus Children's Hospital will implement a radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled inventory management system to store, track, and manage the utilization of high cost devices and supplies supporting congenital heart care. Developed by Mobile Aspects, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the system, called iRISupply, uses an RFID tracking architecture to automate charge capture, inventory management, device expiration management, and other key operational processes within the patient care setting.
The Heart Center will implement thirteen iRISupply cabinet units within their two specially designed Hybrid Cardiac Catheterization Suites to manage items such as stents, closure devices, specialized catheters, and guide wires that are commonly used to treat the complex congenital heart conditions seen at Columbus Children's. In leveraging the RFID-based technology, the organization seeks to efficiently and accurately automate device and supply utilization processes without using manual approaches such as paper documentation, stickers, bar coding or button pushing.
"As a world-class diagnostic, treatment, and research facility for congenital heart disease, it's a high priority for us to create streamlined patient care processes that lead to optimal patient outcomes," shared John P. Cheatham, MD, Director of Cardiac Catheterization & Interventional Therapy. "With the RFID enabled solution from Mobile Aspects, we will create an atmosphere of cost efficiency that will directly benefit our patients, as well as the hospital, in our efforts to deliver world class medicine using state-of-the-art technology in the most cost-effective manner. We owe that to our patients." Implementation of the iRISupply system will begin in April 2007.
To discuss the benefits of iRISupply with other pediatric cardiovascular care providers, Mobile Aspects will be exhibiting at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Tenth Annual Update on Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease conference being held February 21-24 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
The IRISupply system is part of the Mobile Aspects One System of CARE(TM) solution, which uses identification and information technologies to automate processes for clinical resource management by healthcare providers. By automating the storage, tracking, utilization, and billing of clinical resources through RFID, healthcare providers realize enhanced care quality, increased productivity, accurate billing, and significant inventory cost savings.
About Columbus Children's Hospital
Columbus Children's Hospital is a healthcare network that provides wellness, preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative care for infants, children, adolescents and selected adult patients. A medical staff of more than 900 and a hospital staff of nearly 5,000 provide state-of-the-art pediatric care for more than 700,000 patient visits annually. Children's houses the Department of Pediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Ohio's first Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. Columbus Children's Research Institute is one of the top ten National Institutes of Health-funded freestanding pediatric research facilities. More than 75,000 consumers receive health and wellness education each year and affiliation agreements with nearly 100 institutions allow more than 1,700 students and 500 residents to receive training at Children's. The preferred pediatric provider in Central Ohio since 1892, Columbus Children's Hospital is dedicated exclusively to full-service health care for children - serving every child for every reason. More information is available by calling (614) 722-KIDS (5437) or through www.columbuschildrens.com.
About Mobile Aspects
Mobile Aspects, Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pa., is a healthcare technology supplier focused on providing an integrated suite of clinical resource management solutions to automate the management of supply, asset, drug and patient tracking through the One System of CARE solution. The cornerstone of these technological capabilities is Intelligent Radio Frequency Inventory System (iRISTM), the industry's leading patent-protected tracking architecture that leverages radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Through this innovative technology, clinicians and other care providers experience a hands free approach to managing the resources used in the patient care process.
Mobile Aspects can be found on the web at www.mobileaspects.com.
SOURCE: Columbus Children's Hospital