Furthering its scientific development and technological strides, the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, the principal teaching hospital in Worcester, implemented a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system last year.
This automated device, a service from the company WaveMark, is used to count inventory at the hospital. Instead of physically counting each device, recording expiration dates, checking which items need to be restocked, and monitoring the number of items used in each lab, UMass Memorial uses its RFID system in several of its cardiac suites.
The system was put into use by Kathryn Green, senior director for Radiology Services at UMass Memorial, as a means to help reduce the hospital’s inventory and maintenance costs.
“I was very actively involved
