The traditional way of managing field inventory and medical devices is complex and inefficient. Once a kit is in the field, medical organizations are challenged with tracking product location, ensuring items are meeting regulatory compliance, and that sales are properly invoiced.
Terso Solutions' Mobile Case uses automated RAIN RFID technology to solve in-field inventory problems, giving your field representatives the right products when they need them. The solution delivers real-time product visibility, while also ensuring compliance, reducing shrinkage, and streamlining inventory management.
You'll learn how an automated mobile solution using RAIN RFID can:
- Expedite the entire consignment sales process
- Integrate with existing inventory management applications
- Reduce or eliminate paperwork or arduous recall procedures
- Simplify the entire chain of custody from point of manufacture to point of use in a hospital
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About RAIN RFID
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a form of wireless communication
that uses radio waves to identify and track objects
RAIN RFID SYSTEM
Tag Chip RFID Tag Tagged Item Gateways
(Reader)
ItemSense
Software
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One Platform Delivering Item
Intelligence to Multiple Applications
IDENTITY
LOCATION
AUTHENTICITY
Impinj
Platform
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Terso Solutions
RFID TECHNOLOGY
• RFID CABINETS, REFRIGERATORS, FREEZERS
• RFID STOCKROOMS
• RFID MOBILE CASES
• RFID HANDHELDS
SUPPORT SERVICES
• WORLDWIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT
• PROACTIVE SYSTEM MONITORING
AND ALERTS
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• INSTALLATION
• TAG READABILITY TESTING
• TRAINING
JETSTREAM
OPEN API PLATFORM
• MANAGE RAIN RFID DEVICES ANYWHERE
IN THE WORLD
• ANALYZE INVENTORY
• ONE INTEGRATED PLATFORM
• OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS AND DEVELOPER TOOLS
• SIMPLE PROGRAMMING INTERFACES INTEGRATE
WITH ERP, THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE, & CUSTOM
APPS (i.e. Launchpad)
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By 2020, an estimated 25 billion
devices will be connected to
the Internet.
RTHS is a system that is:
• Aware
• Mobile
• Collaborative
• Demanding
Real-time Visibility is the Answer
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Change the way Field Inventory is Managed
• Enables full visibility of field loaner
inventory
• Automates transactions within supply
chain
• Eliminates the need for manual
reconciliation
• Delivers accuracy and tracking of
assets
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TERSO’S PATENTED RAIN
RFID TECHNOLOGY IS
INTEGRATED INTO THE
FIELD INVENTORY CASE.
THE AUTOMATED
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM TRACKS THE
CASE LOCATION AND ITS
CONTENTS IN REAL-TIME.
ADDITIONS TO OR REMOVALS
FROM THE CASE PLUS THE
CASE’S LOCATION ARE
RECORDED IN REAL-TIME
AND ARE ACCESSIBLE VIA A
SECURE WEBSITE.
Location:
Kansas
Medical Devices
Used: 1
How the Mobile Case Works
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RAIN RFID Mobile Case for Field
Inventory Management
Reduce
Shipping
Costs
Leaner Field
Inventory
Without
Stock-outs
Eliminate
Paperwork
Lag Time
Real-time
Inventory
Visibility
Eliminate
Product
Waste & Loss
“(The RFID Mobile Case) has been able to
more accurately and efficiently replenish
kits with replacement items—even when
cases are still in the field—since Medacta
USA now knows which items were removed
from the kit and not returned. It also knows
when and where those actions occurred.”
MATT
INTRODUCE TERSO AND IMPINJ
IMPINJ:
Impinj is a leading provider of passive RAIN RFID solutions including tag chips, reader chips and readers. Impinj delivers Item Intelligence information - physical items’ unique identity, location and authenticity -- to the digital world, which the company believes is the essence of the Internet of Things. Its platform connects billions of everyday items including apparel, medical supplies, automobile parts, drivers’ licenses, food and luggage to applications such as inventory management, patient safety, asset tracking and item authentication, delivering real-time information to businesses about items they create, manage, transport and sell.
TERSO:
Terso Solutions, Inc., provides automated inventory management solutions for tracking high-value medical and scientific products.
Terso is committed to being the market leader in the development and application of RFID solutions that enable healthcare and
life sciences organizations to better manage their supply chain. To date, Terso Solutions has deployed over 1,600 RFID-enabled sensors worldwide.
MATT
Wendy
Wendy will cover first two topics
Matt comes back to manage Q&A
I’m Wendy Werblin, Global Healthcare Product Lead with Impinj. In my role, I manage our healthcare business and work with many of our solution partners to bring passive RAIN RFID solutions to healthcare organizations. I’ve been in the healthcare technology industry for nearly 20 years as both a management consultant and product leader.
We’re coming to you today by way of Seattle and Madison. Welcome everyone!
So what exactly is RAIN RFID? You may have heard of RFID - there are a few different kinds. HF, LF, NFC. RAIN is...
RAIN RFID is a passive UHF RFID based wireless technology standard that has connected over 15 billion items to the internet over the years.
Note that these are everyday objects, we are not talking about powered devices – which are often the examples used when talking about concepts like the Internet of Things. However, what RAIN RFID is enabling today is expanding the reality of the Internet of Things to everyday objects in our physical world, enabling businesses and consumers to identify, locate, and authenticate each of these items – from clothing to medications to equipment to people.
From a terminology perspective, RAIN RFID is to passive RFID what Wifi and Bluetooth are to 802.11 and 802.15 wireless communication technologies, and just like WiFi and Bluetooth are a simple, more user friendly way of referring to a set of wireless communication standards unique to passive RFID.
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is the use of radio waves to read and capture information stored on a tag attached to an object. A tag can be read from up to several feet away and does not need to be within direct line-of-sight of the reader to be tracked.
An RFID system has readers and tags that communicate with each other by radio. RFID tags are so small and require so little power that they don’t even need a battery to store information and exchange data with readers. This makes it easy and cheap to apply tags to all kinds of things that people would like to identify or track.
Over the past several years, the industry has removed technological obstacles, met interoperability requirements and worked on global standardization. It has strengthened educational and promotional efforts around UHF RFID, with EPC Gen2 being a prime example of global standardization.
RAIN RFID uses a single, global standard: UHF Gen 2 (ISO/IEC 18000-63) and is a passive RFID system in which a reader sends a radio signal to a tag.
The tag then uses the transmitted signal to power on, and reflect energy back to the reader.
RAIN RFID isn’t new - the adoption of RAIN RFID is broad and deep – spreading across many industries, around the globe as represented by the images on this slide and continues to grow at a strong pace.
While the industry with the highest rate of adoption today tends to be retail, the examples of how this technology is changing the game outside of retail are numerous, ranging from retailers, healthcare organizations, airports, food and beverage, sports etc.
Note that while the images span multiple industries, I am not trying to say that healthcare is like any of these industries, because as we all know it’s unique, with it’s unique challenges and unique needs, but I want to leave you with the message that this technology has matured and scaled to a point where the adoption has ramped up in a dramatic way and will continue to do so.
In other words, the key takeaway here is that RAIN RFID is an enterprise-class technology that is being actively deployed by large, complex organizations around the world today as an integral part of how those organizations operate.
In healthcare, we are seeing a growing level of interest in this set of capabilities as healthcare organizations look for ways they can gain more visibility and control over their operations, through the use of this technology, in a world where they continue to come under increasing pressure to control their costs, while delivering high quality patient care.
The last point on RAIN RFID that I will leave you with, before we jump into customer success stories with RAIN RFID technology in healthcare, is the sponsorship and advocacy this technology has received from leading technology companies.
The RAIN Alliance was established in 2014 by Google, Intel, Impinj, Smartrac – as a means of building a critical mass of adoption around this technology standard around the world. And in two years the alliance now counts over 100 organizations as members, companies of all shapes and sizes, capabilities, geographies learning about this technology and incorporating it into their products. Including Terso.
And as you can see from the chart on the right, the annual volume of rain rfid tags also continues to grow at a very healthy pace.
Let’s transition now to healthcare and where RAIN RFID is having a meaningful impact. We all know the pressures healthcare organizations are under to deliver high quality care, - and it’s related drivers of clinical quality, patient experience, and cost containment. And hospitals are increasingly accountable to do all of this with the same or fewer resources as in the past, given the pressures on reimbursements, and ongoing government mandates as well as the trend of consumers having an ever increasing level of choice about how and where they get their care. There’s impact at multiple points in the supply chain, from the point of care through to the manufacturers of devices, supplies and pharmaceuticals.
Our vision at Impinj with RAIN RFID technology, is to enable a wide range of IoT solutions that help organizations across the healthcare supply chain meet these challenges head on, and deliver solutions with measurable ROI.
Many partners around the world already have solutions today that leverage parts of the Impinj platform for asset tracking, device & supply management, tissue tracking, patient records tracking, and other applications.
CUT TO TERSO.
MATT to manage.
Seed Questions:
WENDY - How accurate is passive RFID? How far away can I read a piece of equipment?
WENDY – about tag pricing, generally
JOE or JOHN - How does implementation work/how long does it take?
WENDY - What’s the difference between active and passive?
JOE - What’s the difference between UHF/RAIN RFID and HF?
JOE - How can I tie this information back to my EHR?