RFID Applications in Healthcare Systems From an Operational Perspective

Abstract

This treatise centers on media management and entrepreneurship as the healthcare industry transforms legacy systems into lean strategies that leverage RFID-related technologies with solutions to lower cost for supply chain partners and simultaneously enhance patient value. These solutions include using barcodes as a backup to more advanced media management technologies, standardization in medical processes and automation, overcoming implementation and resistance considerations, and eliminating waste in hospital inventory management systems. Successful case studies are outlined to illustrate these principles in practice.