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™ Patent-protected image recognition technology 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 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. TOTAL-SENSE-smart 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.

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.

SNAP&GO™

Patent-protected image recognition technology, to record all medical implants at the point of use

SNAP&GO™

Patent-protected image recognition technology, to record all medical implants and consumables used during surgery

Award Winning

Data Capture Technology

Snap & Go Wins the Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award for Increasing Inventory Visibility in Operating Rooms Using Machine Learning and AI

WE CRACKED THE SYSTEM!

Technology that “sees” and interprets images of products and identifies them

Futuristic Data Capture Solution

The Power of AI and Image Recognition in Your Hands

EXACT

Cast costing

Cost-of-care analysis per doctor, procedure & product, allowing for better budget planning

bILLING &

REIMBURSMENT

Complete records of all used products including “Bill-Only” and off-contract products

Item Master clean

of “dirty data”

Avoid barcode variability with Standardized visual documentation and charging integrity

Utilization

analysis

Once you know what is in stock you can simply reduce your safety stock levels

Recall history

database

Audit-proof charting process and a searchable database of batch numbers for easy tracking of recalled items

Optimized contract

negotiation

Full usage data supports better bargaining power with vendors and payers

Improve satisfaction

of surgeons and nurses

Surgeons can use preferred items without affecting the billing reconciliation process. Nurses benefit from a simple and easy-to-use device

Reduce

liability risk

Staff are alerted when a recalled or expired item is about to be used to prevent adverse events

When every item used is easily documented, accurately inventory management is made possible!

MANAGE THE EXIT POINT PROPERLY

Complete records of all used products for full patient billing and reimbursement

NO SHORTAGES, NO WASTE

Precise rendering of core inventory levels, including expiration dates

KNOW EXACT COST PER DOCTOR/SURGERY

Cost-of-care analysis per doctor, procedure & product, allowing for better budget planning

PREVENT LITIGATION

Staff is alerted if a recalled or expired item is about to be used. Batch numbers are fully tracked

WHERE OTHER SOLUTIONS HAVE FAILED

IDENTI Medical’s new generation data collection technology has succeeded in enabling hospitals & ambulatory centers to collect 100% of the implants, and other chargeable items, used at the POU. By just snapping an image of the items used in surgery, the circulating nurse documents all item data, including manufacturer name, reference number, batch, serial number, production and expiry date.

AUTOMATIC CHARTING

Effortless image capture frees nurses’ attention from time-consuming manual data entry.

No typing, no barcode scanning, no software training, no tagging.

Place > Quick SNAP > Green Light GO!

ITEM IDENTIFICATION

Product details are recognized and routed through cloud data platform, a quick global database and advanced AI & machine learning algorithm. Complete UDI tracking: batch/lot no. serial no., expiration date and manufacturer SKU, are recorded directly into the patient’s electronic file .

REDUCE LITIGATION RISK

During surgery, at point of use, Snap&Go supports the teams and verifies safety. Alerts for any recalled or expired items appear on screen.

Full tracking of batch history and expiration date enable patient safety recall & expiring products management, from the moment the unit arrives at the surgical room and years later.

INTEROPERABILITY & ITEM MASTER MAINTENANCE

IdentiPlatform cloud-based software transforms all raw data into valuable information hospitals and vendors can use to make operating room inventory management visible and smarter.

A dedicated in-house back office team completes missing information to maintain a consolidated hospital item master and avoid barcode variability.

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CASE STUDY

Explore the Heart, Vascular, and Leg Center (HVLC) digital transforming in inventory management

This case study delve into the challenges, the solutions implemented, and the remarkable outcomes achieved through the integration of Snap&Go and TotalSense cutting-edge technology.

The perfect solution for orthopedic implant charting:
DIGITALIZE THE IMPLANT SHEET WITHOUT REPLACING IT

Snap & Go digitally ‘reads’ completed Implant Sheet then auto updates your ERP system – in seconds!
The fastest way to Capture your
Implant Sheet data post-surgery.