What is Snap & Go image recognition?

Snap & Go is an easy-to-use system that enables medical product identification and charge capture through image recognition technology. Full UDI information is digitally populated in the hospital’s EMR/ERP/MMIS systems: manufacturer’s name, ref no., batch\lot no., expiration date, and serial number as required by FDA regulations. Snap & Go helps reduce sentinel events by providing safety alerts of expired and recalled items at the point of care, including external inventory. Visual proof of use is documented automatically as part of the charge/data capture process. The platform, powered by AI and machine learning, maintains a daily-updated global manufacturer catalog list database including UDI and UPN raw data, which enables the automatic charting of items used during a procedure. When the system cannot identify an item a remote human back-office team updates the missing information and corrects “bad data” on the fly, to enhance the integrity of items registered in the hospital item master and to provide more than 99% reading accuracy. Relieving the clinical team of time-consuming data entry and obtaining more precise surgery costs means capturing lost revenue through accurate charge-capture, better forecast planning and timely reimbursement.

What is a Kanban system for inventory management in hospitals?

Kanban for Healthcare offers a reliable and efficient supply management method that helps hospital replenish their medical inventory while reducing waste and avoiding counting errors. When the method is applied, RFID technology is incorporated to provide automatic re-order. There is a wide range of solutions that differ in the amount of involvement required by the medical staff. The most autonomous solution is the wireless and smart weighing bin by IDENTI Medical, which offers a portable scale with a digital display that automatically creates an inventory order according to the weight of the items inside the bin.

What is automatic expiry management?

Expiration date management is a protocol which is used to ensure that surgical inventory is safe and proper before being used on a patient. Expired products have the potential to harm or cause detriment to a patient’s health. While the importance of removing expired products and supplies from hospital inventory may seem obvious, 7% to 10% of products expired sit on hospital shelves. Hospitals over the years have tried to address the problem by applying automated expiration date solutions, but the real problem begins when expiring products that were not in the original inventory planning and do not undergo validation reach the operating room theatre—emergencies that require immediate products, products that come directly from the supplier, products taken from other kits are most likely to use expired products. It is therefore important to implement an expiration validity solution that addresses these cases as well. Expiration date management is a problem for many hospitals because they continue to rely on manual processes that slow down their staff and leave too much room for error.

What is The New GS1 standard for Item Identification?

The GS1 (Global Standards 1) recently adopted a new standard for item identification that permits for the use of one of two methods to obtain GS1 compliance: barcoding or UHF RFID. Several multinational medical suppliers, including Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific, have opted to use UHF RFID and are now in the process of tagging all their products accordingly. IDENTI Medical provides a complete solution for the next generation of Smart Cabinets that includes advanced UHF RFID embedded in the cabinet and a seamless connection to cloud services and business intelligence-based management software, connecting all stakeholders in the medical supply chain.

What is RFID Smart Cabinet for hospitals?

RFID Smart cabinet for hospitals is an automated inventory system developed to helps cath labs, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, EP labs, orthopedics, plastic surgery, gastro and many more operation rooms with their medical inventory management. The technology tracks at individual item level tagged items stored inside the cabinet, including batch numbers and expiration dates. The most advanced smart cabinets incorporate a new generation of ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID tags that are capable of transmitting longer and can be covered by multiple antennas. This enables every stocked item to be read, no matter the size or placement of the items within the cabinet. Specialization in such technology requires in-depth knowledge of RFID technology, its capabilities, and applications. IDENTI Medical is one of a few companies that has managed to provide the high level of accuracy required in the medical sector.

How to capture UDI data?

The UDI system was intended to provide easier traceability of medical devices, reduce safety errors, to fight against falsified devices, and eventually significantly improve the effectiveness of operational inventory management and waste. There are many options to record UDI data in hospitals, but today, many medical centers chose to capture UDI information through image recognition technology. The technology, which is fully utilized in various industries, has proven to be efficient and accurate because it decodes a digital image of the product without the need to rely on external tagging or a limited barcode structure. Hence the technology can pull all the relevant information—manufacturer number, serial number, batch number, expiration date—directly from the product label without human involvement, and to populate all the hospital’s software systems.

What is a healthcare inventory management system?

Healthcare inventory management, or supply chain management is an inclusive term for the group of processes by which healthcare providers are able to perform perpetual inventory tracking, purchases, orders, payments, and more. The main goal in implementing such systems in large and decentralized organizations is the ability to manage medical inventory in a single centralized management software that can synchronize all internal inventory management processes automatically, to save human resources and avoid revenue losses. One of the biggest problems in recent years is the amount of time and effort required from clinical teams. Today the goal is to develop semi-autonomous systems that do not burden the medical staff with these administrative tasks.

Why manage implant and tissue tracking with a smart cabinet?

Smart cabinets are an automatic method for managing medical inventory in healthcare organizations, which enable digital tracking and full transparency of implants, tissue and medical devices. Smart cabinets, which are based on RFID technology, can manage inventory at the item level and therefore becomes the most appropriate method for transitioning into consignment stock management. UHF RFID is the most up-to-date and accurate technology for this task due to its ability to accurately read the tags on the product regardless of the angle, orientation, or type of product.

Kanban&PAR

Automatic inventory management and re-order of medical supplies in any healthcare setting

KANBAN

&PAR LEVEL

Automatic inventory management and re-order of medical supplies in any healthcare setting

A variety of patent-protected solutions — powered by artificial intelligence management software — reduce complexity, lower costs and accelerate lean management performance.

KANBAN, PAR LEVEL or both

We have a variety of solutions for all your medical supply inventory management needs. Identi’s patent-protected RFID technologies — powered by artificial intelligence management software

Simple, highly efficient method to automate inventory management and re-order medical supplies
Provides materials managers with easy replenishment that is automatically documented
Lower costs and reduce complexity
Accelerate lean management performance with IDENTI Platform cloud-based software

NEW! The Wireless PAR Weighing Bin

Weight-based Inventory Management System

A wireless and portable smart scale with a digital display that automatically creates an inventory order according to the weight of the items inside the bin.

This “hands-free” solution provides real-time data about the inventory level inside the bin for quick stock replenishment. Ward staff can see the order status on the bin display. If a new product is stored in the bin, the digital display tag can be updated without the need to change a label.

The Smart Weighing Bin is connected via RFID to the IDENTI Platform AI Management Software, which interfaces with the hospital ERP system or with a third-party supplier. Available in three sizes depending on the size of the product, and because it is wireless it can be easily moved to wherever required.

A wireless and portable smart scale with a digital display that automatically creates an inventory order according to the weight of the items inside the bin.

KANBAN & PAR LEVEL SOLUTIONS

Kanban & PAR Level Solutions

Benefits for hospitals

A one-time 40% reduction in supply room inventory for medical supplies
Accurate consignment and reduced management costs
Balanced inventory — no emergency orders or stock-outs
Accurate consignment and reduced management costs
Digital, real-time order status display
Automatic identification of the staff
Reduced human error and waste caused by manual counting
Support for several types of storage areas, including "two-bin" lean Kanban configuration and PAR level

Benefits

A one-time 40% reduction in supply room inventory
No waste or stock-outs
Digital, real-time order status display
Reduced human error caused by manual counting
Easy replenishment that is automatically documented

HOW IT WORKS

An RFID-based device is attached to each bin in the warehouse or on the production floor. Support both PAR and kanban for healthcare

The system displays the status of the order.

When the bin is empty, the ward triggers a re-order.

After the replenishment supply is delivered, by central storage employees or directly from the supplier, the material manager records that the re-order is complete, which in turn, updates the ordering system.

The stock level information is then recorded and captured in the IDENTI Platform management software, enabling all supply chain stakeholders to be updated in real-time.

* Ward staff can report “Out of stock” on the rare occasion of a stock-out and trigger a high-priority delivery.

The automatic notification, which includes item quantity and location, is sent directly to the supplier’s ERP for easy replenishment.

Each item is marked with an RFID tag.

When the bin is empty, the ward triggers a re-order.

The stock level information is then recorded and captured in the LogiPlatform management software, enabling all supply chain stakeholders to be updated in real-time.