The Healthcare Chief Information Officer (CIO) is one of the hardest worked CIOs in all of technology. Regulatory requirements from HIPAA to defining “meaningful use” coupled with running 24/7 operations have a healthcare IT professional balancing between IT, Legal, and most importantly Patient Care. How can a CIO get off the treadmill?

The only way to stop feeling like you don’t have enough time or resources  and start to get ahead is to amputate parts  that drain scarce resources. Diagnose your organization – for every healthy task that adds value, you likely have five to eight ‘leech” positions that do nothing but eat away at the health of the organization. They have to go.

Take a holistic view of your organization, if you are paying people to do the following roles you have a great opportunity to use RFID to recoup some of your scarce resources and drive value and efficiency.

The parasitic roles to eliminate are:

• Counting things over and over
• Finding things that are not where they should be
• Proving to someone you have something you say you have
• Recording the use of items in a value-add process

All of those roles are exhausting not only your resources but you as well.

The solution to healthcare's ills is real time location systems (RTLS) based on both active and passive RFID. Leading hospitals gloablly are finding that just one technology or the other is not enough to get the job done. Active RFID is too big and expensive for a lot of items, passive RFID can't provide a foot by foot trail of an asset in transit. Combine the two into a cohesive RTLS system and you solve many issues associated with a modern healthcare institution. Add the ability to roll up multiple facilities into a single RTLS view - with ODIN's patented software - and you can run a much leaner, helathier organization.

Automating those rote processes can drive meaningful return on investment (ROI) and improve accuracy and compliance. For low-risk high value initiatives look at ODIN’s off-the-shelf RFID & RTLS solutions that are based on industry standard business processes and configurable for your specific use case.

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EasyKit – this is implant and surgical kit tracking used by 60% of the top medical device manufacturers like DePuy, Medtronic and others. The ORI is proven to be 8-10 months

EasySpecimen – This is our lab specimen and lab test tracking software developed in conjunction with a world's leading Clinic and the first year implemented saved may $2 million and reduced their error rate to .02%

Smart Cabinets – Medical cabinets are in use at every major hospital world-wide. The counting and replenishment is expensive, value draining and often inaccurate using manual methods. ODIN ahs an automated solution

EasyPedigree – mandates for ePedigree and security requirements make RFID one of the best technology for automated pedigree and anti-diversion

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