Tufts Medical Center plans to roll out technology to automate the tracking of high-value, specialty inventory used in the cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology and interventional radiology departments.
Tufts will use Littleton, Mass.-based WaveMark's RTIM - real time infrastructure management - technology to track the items.
The oldest permanent medical facility in New England and one of the first in the nation, the 451-bed Tuffs Medical Center is the principal teaching hospital for the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Tufts will use WaveMark's RFID-enabled inventory management solution, WaveMark CIMS, to track nearly 5,000 products. The intent is to provide a new level of product visibility in these fast-paced specialty suites.
Tufts executives said they chose WaveMark based on the accuracy of its technology and its proven success in optimizing inventory levels, improving patient safety and streamlining clinical workflow.
"Choosing WaveMark allowed us to address a number of challenges at Tufts," said Steve Cashton, director of supply chain management at Tufts. "We needed to reduce inventory levels in all areas by at least 20 percent in order to reallocate those resources to other critical needs. In addition, we wanted to trim the operating budget and reduce write-offs, without adversely impacting patient safety and clinical workflow. WaveMark will enable us to meet these goals and give us a strong return on investment.”
