IoT enabled hospital asset tracking using advanced interdisciplinary approaches

Abstract

As the healthcare landscape embraces the revolutionary power of digitalization, improving inventory systems has become a top priority. Hospital asset tracking primarily focuses on monitoring various assets within a healthcare facility. These assets encompass human resources, medical equipment, vehicles, and other essential resources crucial for seamless hospital operations. Tracking assets in a hospital setting can range from monitoring individual medical devices to overseeing entire fleets of equipment and staff resources. The central objective is to maintain real-time records of asset status, and location to optimize productivity while minimizing costs. This project tracks the assets within the hospital using RFID sensors and outside the hospital using GPS. Radio frequency identification system (RFID) is an automatic technology and is used to identify objects, and record data through radio waves. Hospital asset management and tracking has become one of the main priorities in healthcare as it saves hospitals both money and time. Hospitals are under constant pressure to persistently track their medical equipment and supplies to make sure that they are properly utilized. This enhances financial performance and ensures the delivery of high-quality patient care. These are the advanced approaches to improve hospital asset management through real-time tracking and data analysis.