Surgery Rooms should be run the same as a business. 

If you ran a store, would you run it the same way you operate a surgery room? The answer should be yes, however most often this is not the reality in hospitals. Why is it that a nurse with an RN degree spends his or her time gathering up the physician preference items to prepare for a surgery? Is the price of the item readily available to the nurse, or does the nurse search for it? Once the nurse finds the price, does he have to then enter this into the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) patient’s session manually?

Unfortunately, too often in hospitals, this is how the process goes. 

Hospitals are struggling to stay on budget, but they are losing money left and right due to manual error. Imagine if staff accidentally fails to charge an $800 item in a patient's session. The hospital has just lost $800. What if another item costs $1600, but the nurse accidentally entered $600, not realizing that she missed entering the 1? Now the hospital has lost $1400! 

Does this happen in every patient session? No. However, on a daily basis, in any patient session, the chances are high that a mistake will happen. And when it does, big dollars are lost. Hospitals can save hundreds of thousands of dollars in staff time and sunk costs if they "bridged the gap". What does "bridge the gap" mean? It means that RFID offers a solution to bridge the gap between the hospital ordering system (Lawson, for example), and the EMR (Epic, for example).

Low cost RFID tags coupled with an accompanying software solution would streamline the process. It is time for hospitals to find ways to be more efficient and effective. Managing physician preference items with RFID is an important way that hospitals can improve their safety and efficiency, while saving costs at the same time.