Study of RFID Application in Dialysis Room Process Management

This study expects to improve the present stock management mode of dialysis room and the problems existing in process, save manpower, time and cost, master stock and usage amount of medicine materials, and reduce the loss amount of artificial kidneys by using RFID technology. Further more, using the functions of RFID to raise quality of patients' attendance, and create larger value for patients and hospitals. In this case, during inventory check every month, usage amount often isn't compliance with stock account. The loss of artificial kidney is 120 pieces per year, and loss amount is NTD $65,770. There is no certain standard rule for ordering medicine materials, which causes overstock and increases the cost of stock management. Shifts of nurses have to take the responsibility of managing the warehouse, which invisibly wastes lots of manpower, time and cost. The prepare process costs 528 hours per year ($88,704); the process of setting prices 360 hours per year ($60,480); inventory process 36 hours per year ($6,048);month inventory process 24 hours per year ($4,032). When nursing staffs are helping patients with dialysis, the problem of mistakenly taking wrong type of artificial kidneys would happens. It not only causes uncomfortable to patients, but also will affect the medical quality, if let patients use a wrong type without checking for the second time. By introducing RFID, the modes of identification for checking patients' medical materials, nursing stall set prices, stock management, and etc., combination with information, solving the problem of process and the stock management of medical materials, the quality of dialysis patients' attendance will be upgraded. Through exactly mastering the usage and stock amount of medical materials to reduce stock management cost, let stock management toward to paperless, and become more efficient. It can also be applied in dialysis rooms of other hospitals.