SkyeTek's RFID Patient Tracking Solution
The healthcare industry is 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 and do not do not take into account lost wages and productivity or additional health care costs.
By embedding SkyeTek's RFID reader modules into products, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and systems integrators can enable their products to automate healthcare processes, including:
- Blood transfusions
- Diagnostic imaging
- Laboratory analysis
- Medication delivery
- Surgical procedures
- X-rays
SkyeTek's Advanced Universal Reader Architecture (AURA) is the foundation that allows each SkyeModule to provide industry-leading tag support and read range / reliability at the highest levels of cost- / space- / power-efficiency - key requirements in patient safety applications. Via AURA, the M2 SkyeModule also incoporates the RFID industry's most advanced encryption and digital signature technology - critical to securing patient health information and HIPAA compliance. Since SkyeTek's security is also based on open standards, hospitals can use generic tags at a typical cost savings of 60 - 70% versus tags that employ proprietary methods of security.
SkyeTek's RFID Solutions
The market for embedded RFID reader technology is a continually expanding list of hundreds of applications spanning many vertical industries. While its technology can be applied to virtually any embedded RFID application, SkyeTek is particularly focused on the following five application areas:
