Inventory management in hospitals using RFID smart cabinets and shelves.

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Automated Inventory Management with RFID Smart Cabinets

Hospitals and other healthcare providers are challenged with reducing costs from carrying and managing inventory. They carry a large inventory of many models, makes, and types. These products are a mix between owned and consigned. In order to maintain accurate inventory levels, busy clinicians must decrement every item they use and conduct periodic lengthy and time consuming cycle counts and audits, while their first priority is patient care and safety.

This all adds up to common problems:

Too much expensive inventory on hand
Periodic write-offs due to inventory shrinkage and expirations
Expiring products not being taken off the shelf and causing patient safety risks
Periodically running out of stock for needed products
Dissatisfied staff wasting time caring for supplies instead of patients

WaveMark’s Inventory Management solution combines the use of RFID as well as barcode and adapts each to match the need at hand. For high-value products, RFID Smart Cabinets count the inventory automatically without any need for manual intervention. For less expensive supplies, a non-cabinet based solution tracks inventory using barcodes and other methodologies.

Learn more: RFID Smart Cabinets, Point of Use Stations, Supplies Management Software