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Radianse, Inc.

Michael Dempsey

Chief Technology Officer

[email protected]

MIT Enterprise ForumRFID Special Interest Group

RFID in the Hospital - June 12, 2006

Who is Radianse

• Founded by Former HP/Philips Medical leaders• Funded by medical VCs and healthcare providers

– Ascension Healthcare– Kaiser Permanente– Partners Healthcare

• 100% dedicated to healthcare• Thousands of ID-tags deployed and in use today

Mission: To be the #1 provider of location and identification based productivity solutions that empower healthcare organizations to decrease costs, increase revenues and improve safety.

Solutions for Healthcare

• Indoor Positioning Solutions (IPS) is analogous to GPS in an indoor space

• A Radianse IPS combines active-RFID and location information to:– provide greater productivity and safety– enable systems, applications, devices and clinical

spaces to automatically initiate actions based on circumstances or events at a point in time

Solution OverviewID-Tag

Server

Location engine calculates location and populates SQL database

All information available via Intranet, short messaging or interfacesActive-RFID tags

transmit to LAN or WiFi connected receivers

Hospital standardEthernet LANSwitch with POE

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Receiver

Increasing Productivity Through Indoor Positioning

ImproveUtilization

IncreaseThroughput

IncreaseSafety

• Know how people and things interact in time and space – Protect patients– Better manage resources– Measure and improve

clinical processes– Increase efficiency,

satisfaction, safety

Improve Equipment and Devices Utilization

• Reduced loss and hording• Real-time asset location – right

equipment in the right place at the right time

• Improved preventive maintenance/recall management

• Reduce time searching for equipment• Improved cost capture• Information on utilization rates • Rental and lease reduction programs

Solutions for People Location

• Reduce risk for ambulatory patients

• Improve flow times with accurate measures

• Increase staff security• Improve satisfaction• Spend more time with patients

Improve Workflow• Drive of patient flows • Information on room utilization • Measurement of procedure times • Measures for total quality management

studies • Tools to support JCAHO and HIPAA

compliance • Code management

Some Results…

• Workflow: MGH increased throughput in ORs by 43%• Workflow: Hannibal Regional increased OR utilization

from 57 to 70% and reduced overtime by 50%• Workflow: Baptist Hospital reduce phone call volume

of 1,600 calls a day, a reduction of 60% • Asset Management: Brigham and Women’s reduced

shrinkage lead to a 15 month payback

Active RFID for Hospitals is Here Today

• Radianse currently has 17 clinical installations using close to 12,000 ID-tags today

• Radianse is adding one installation per month and will have shipped well in excess of 40,000 ID-tags by the end of the year

• By the end of ’06 Radianse will have 5 to 6 hospital-wide deployments

• Hospitals are moving from IPS to IPS in combination with patient flow/resource management software