With RFID Tracking, Less Idle Pump Time

The University Hospital in San Antonio had a hoarding problem. Staff in some departments were holding on to as many as 50 smart infusion pumps when 10 would have done the trick. By 2013, things were so out of hand that an intervention was needed, and passive radiofrequency identification (RFID) was deemed the best the solution, according to Gene Winfrey, the director of information services in the biomedical engineering department at the hospital, which is part of University Health Systems.