California Heart Institute Tracks Supplies with RFID

Hospitals often require tens of thousands of medical products for hundreds of different procedures that serve a wide variety of patients and their unique needs. While these products are essential to patient care, have limited shelf life and are subject to recalls, they are often not tracked inside facilities or even to a specific patient.

Loma Linda University Health (LLUH), in Loma Linda, CA, has addressed the challenge at its International Heart Institute (IHI) with an automated inventory management system using a UHF RAIN RFID technology solution from VueMed.

With the implementation of the system, IHI reported that it is now able to support a significant increase in complexity and volume of cases without any significant increases in on-hand inventory.