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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Transactions ID Number: 20-690
Full Name: Linda Castro
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Age: ON
Sex: Female
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Country: CANADA
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E-mail address: linda.castro@polymtl.ca
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Title of the Paper: assessing the prevailing implementation issues of RFID in healthcare: a five-phase implementation model
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Elisabeth Lefebvre, Linda Castro, and Louis-A. Lefebvre
Email addresses of all the authors: elisabeth.lefebvre@polymtl.ca, linda.castro@polymtl.ca, Louis-Andre Lefebvre louis-andre.lefebvre@polymtl.ca
Number of paper pages: 15
Abstract: In the healthcare arena, supply and demand of medical devices and equipment pose enormous challenges for material managers who have to ensure that "the right equipment" is at "the right moment" at the "point-of-need". Lack of assets visibility has led to increase of operations inefficiencies, increase in needed resources and budgets, lost of staff valuable time, as well as delays in patient care delivery generating patients and staff dissatisfaction, affecting patient flow and possibly patient safety. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is rising as a highly promising technology for material management in asset-intensive industries such as healthcare, where caregivers continually use thousands of medical devices across multiple clinical departments. RFID proven capabilities to automatically and capture, share and synchronize product's information, as precise as at the item-level, is giving rise to new paradigms for the management of critical and life-saving medic!
al equipment in hospitals. Even tough RFID is proclaimed to be a breakthrough asset tracking technology; its adoption and implementation in healthcare have been hindered by the haziness of RFID projects' ROI. Through a case study in a European hospital, we intend to assess the suitability of a proposed RFID implementation model to evaluate the various implications of RFID project, the prevailing implementation issues, as well as to investigate the anticipated benefits of such implementation.
Keywords: Healthcare, key performance indicators, mobile asset management, RFID implementation.
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Prevailing issues related to RFID implementation in the healthcare sector
Organizer of the Session: Paper ID- 653-334
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