Precision Dynamics Corporation and HP Provide Chang Gung Memorial Hospital with RFID System for Patient Management

Precision Dynamics Corporation and HP Provide Chang Gung Memorial Hospital with RFID System for Patient Management

Precision Dynamics Corporation (PDC) and HP (NYSE: HPQ)(Nasdaq: HPQ) today announced the successful implementation of an RFID (radio frequency identification) patient management system at Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH), part of an 8,800-bed health system in Keelung, Taiwan.

CGMH implemented the RFID system in its operating rooms to improve patient safety by verifying and positively identifying patients, gathering real-time data, reducing risk of wrong-site and/or wrong-patient surgery, and ensuring compliance with hospital patient safety procedures or standard operating procedures. Since the implementation, CGMH has achieved 100% accuracy in patient ID in the OR. The new RFID system automates many manual functions of the previous operating room processes. The system helps verify that the five rights of medication safety are met—right patient, medication, dose, time, and route—as well as right surgery and surgical site.

Automating patient data verification processes has saved CGMH medical staff an average of 4.3 minutes per patient. Also, automated data collection has helped prevent common manual data entry mistakes, which if gone undetected could lead to medical errors. According to Joseph Ho, chief information officer at CGMH, the reduction of errors related to oral confirmation and manual entries of patient, medication and specimen ID data, as well as standard operating procedure compliance and real-time exception alerts, are major advantages of the system implementation. “We have not had any patient identification errors since implementing the new RFID system—a significant accomplishment,” said Ho.

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