Patient Tracking Devices - Reliable Tracker-Locator

In progress, what was once thought of as impossible can surprise later and becomes real. There had been samples in the past on this premise. However, the latest case in point is the evolution of RFID (radio frequency identification) and become the basis of today’s patient tracking devices Queensland.

After having served as the system for tracking consumer products, vehicles, pets, and others, the system is now used to track people. These are the special people with mental difficulties, hospital patients mostly, and whose locations need to be accounted for.

The basics

The RFID device belongs to a wireless system which has two parts. The first is the tag and the other is the reader. The reader is the component equipped with antennas that send out radio waves and receives signals from the RFID tag. 

The tag uses radio waves to communicate to the reader their identity and other information to the reader. The tag is either passive or active. Active tags are powered by batteries and the passive ones are powered by the reader and do not have batteries.

Storage

RFID tags can store much information. This might be a simple serial number or it can carry several pages of data. The readers can be mobile (can be transported) or be mounted on a post or placed high on an overhead platform.

They can even be built into the architecture of plain cabinet, a room or a building.

Healthcare

The patient tracking devices use radio waves (in several frequencies) in sending and receiving data between the tag and the reader. It is now widely used in hospitals, medical centers and other health institutions in locating their patients who may wander off from their beds or rooms or groups.

Aside from patients, big hospitals and other medical establishments use the technology in tracking and locating equipments and other expensive items in transit. This is also used in their inventory control. 

Patients

The big deal is the tracking of patients with the use of RFID on the patients. The primary use is actual bodily monitoring of the patients. Then, there are those who are out of bed (and fall detection) on in-bed patients with erratic movements.

Another important use of tracking with the use of RFID is on patients. The primary use is actual bodily monitoring. Next targets are out-of-bed (and fall detection) for in-bed patients with erratic movements.

The other important use of the tracker is ensuring that the patient receives his/her correct medications (or medical devices). The point is to prevent giving the wrong (or counterfeit) medicine and other medical devices.

Warning

For those who are not yet privy to the dangers of the RFID system, health professionals and doctors have to be informed on the potential dangers on the use of RFID where it can interfere with some electronic devices.

These would include pacemakers, and cardioverter defibrillators implanted on patients. 

Health professionals and doctors need to be informed on the potential dangers on the use of RFID system. The system can possibly interfere with critical electronic devices. All in all, however, patient tracking devices Queensland is one big help to the medical profession.