Kannry Joseph, Emro Susan, Blount Marion, Ebling Maria
Division of Clinical Informatics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, NY, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11;2007:384-8.
RFID technology shows significant potential for transforming healthcare, yet few studies assess this potential. Our study measured the effectiveness of using RFID as a bed trigger: a tool to accelerate identification of empty beds. We made a small alteration in the discharge process to associate RFID tags with patients and created an RFID-based system that automatically determined discharge time. For each patient, we evaluated the difference in the discharge times recorded manually by the current process and the RFID-based system. The study was conducted on 86 patients over 2 months in 2 physically separate multi-specialty units. Compared to the preexisting process, the RFID-based system identified empty beds >20 minutes earlier 67% of the time with an average of 25 minutes and median of 9 minutes earlier. Hospital leadership defined an improvement of approximately 10 minutes as significant. With minimal investment, our small-scale study lead hospital leadership to begin planning RFID deployment.
射频识别（RFID）技术在变革医疗保健方面显示出巨大潜力，但很少有研究评估这种潜力。我们的研究测量了使用RFID作为床位触发装置的有效性：这是一种加速识别空床的工具。我们在出院流程中做了一个小改动，将RFID标签与患者关联起来，并创建了一个基于RFID的系统，该系统能自动确定出院时间。对于每位患者，我们评估了当前流程手动记录的出院时间与基于RFID的系统记录的出院时间之间的差异。该研究在两个月内对两个物理上分开的多专科科室的86名患者进行。与现有流程相比，基于RFID的系统在67%的时间里能提前20分钟以上识别空床，平均提前25分钟，中位数提前9分钟。医院领导将大约10分钟的改善定义为显著改善。通过最少的投资，我们的小规模研究促使医院领导开始规划RFID的部署。
