As a follow-up to the Blood Center solution video, below is the companion video that details how RFID (and Auto-ID technologies such as barcodes and sensors) can be used to enhance and improve patient safety at bed-side point of care – though the video demonstrates transfusion medicine, the solution itself is flexible enough to extend to other medication as well, helping reduce and eliminate bed-side errors. Enjoy the video and drop me a line if you have any questions, comments,[...]
source: www.istockphoto.com In recent conversations with industry professionals, a recurring theme that comes up is ‘How do I approach a Auto-ID based solution like any other enterprise application roll-out’? A simple enough question at first-glance, but as I prodded a bit more, it became clear that certain factors seemed to be causing apprehension in their minds – I’d like to share these insights gained for the benefit of the larger audience, and the questions behind the above question roughly translate[...]
Here’s a brief video that walks through the mission-critical solution we are designing and deploying as part of the Transfusion Medicine RFID Consortium, using RFID (and Auto-ID technology such as barcodes and sensors) to keep our nation’s blood supply chain safe. Have a look at the video, and goto the ‘How it Works’ section of the Transfusion Medicine RFID website to learn more. As always, look forward to your feedback, and drop me a line if you are looking at[...]
The Transfusion Medicine RFID Consortium’s exhibit at the AABB CTTXPO October 10-12, 2010 is being described as having been very beneficial by members of the Consortium who manned the booth. Rodeina Davis, RFID Program Director and Vice President and CIO at BloodCenter of Wisconsin, noted that “The stream of visitors was steady throughout the exhibit period and both hospital and blood center visitors expressed high interest in the work we’re doing.” We presented live demonstrations of some of the more[...]
This weekend to Tuesday (October 9-12th) ,we will be participating in the annual AABB Annual Meeting & CTTXPO 2010 as part of the Transfusion Medicine RFID Consortium to demonstrate the first set of mission critical apps to enable end-end tracking of blood and blood products as described in my previous post. If you are going to be at the show, visit us at Booth #102 anytime during the show, and join us for an education session on ‘RFID in the[...]
Today we announced that the Transfusion Medicine RFID Consortium has selected S3Edge’s Spotlight software to deliver a suite of packaged applications for tracking and monitoring blood products across the transfusion medicine supply chain. The Consortium consists of carefully selected and motivated partners – BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Carter BloodCare, Mississippi Blood Services, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Baptist Health Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SysLogic Inc., Mediware, and Hardware Partners such as Unitech, Tagsys, Tracient and Zebra – that, working together,[...]
Read more about it here or check out the BizTalk Server portal to learn more and play with the latest release of BizTalk Server, which represents a culmination of Microsoft’s recent wave of platform / application infrastructure technologies investments this year. Along with the releases earlier this calendar year of .NET Framework 4, Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure AppFabric, BizTalk Server 2010 makes it easier for customers to build composite applications that span both on-premises LOB systems and new[...]