Daqing Women’s and Children’s Hospital in China rolls out SmartSense for wireless temperature monitoring, infant safety, and patient tracking

Cadi Scientific, news release, September 11, 2014:

In an effort to enhance patient safety and reduce nurses' workload, Daqing Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Heilongjiang, China, has rolled out the SmartSense infant safety system in its maternity ward and both the SmartSense temperature monitoring system and SmartSense patient tracking system in its pediatric ward. These systems use radio frequency identification (RFID), a wireless technology. The temperature monitoring system measures body temperature continuously, unobtrusively, and automatically, without disturbing the patient. The patient tracking system gives room-level accuracy for a patient’s location. The infant safety system matches a mother to her baby and ensures that the correct baby is always brought to the mother. It also prevents infant abduction by monitoring the movements of babies in real time, especially at unauthorized exits. These SmartSense systems were supplied by Cadi Scientific, a Singapore-based healthcare technology company.

Source:

http://www.cadi.com.sg/NewsEvents/Detail.aspx?type=news&year=2014&id=90

Note:
Daqing Women’s and Children’s Hospital refers to 大庆妇女儿童医院

Hong Kong Union Hospital adopts RFID temperature sensors for pediatric patients

RFID Journal, article (extract), September 11, 2012:

The system enables the children to have a better night's sleep, and also provides nurses with real-time readings of temperature and other vital signs.

Compared with adults, pediatric patients are at greater risk of spiking fevers, and for that reason, hospitals must often record the temperatures of young patients numerous times throughout the night. If the staff uses a handheld thermometer, a child is likely to be awakened every time his or her temperature is taken — plus, that child's fever may have risen dangerously high in the interim. To enable its pediatric patients to have a better night's sleep, and to gain more frequent temperature and vital-sign readings, Hong Kong Union Hospital has installed a radio frequency identification system provided by Singapore RFID company Cadi Scientific. The solution, known as SmartSense, consists of temperature-sensing RFID tags that patients wear on their abdomen, RFID interrogators mounted on walls, and SmartSense software to receive that data, store it for the hospital staff, and issue alerts in the event that a temperature is rising, according to Grace Too, Cadi Scientific Hong Kong's business account manager.

Source:
Swedberg C. Hong Kong Union Hospital adopts RFID temperature sensors for pediatric patients. RFID Journal 2012 September 11.

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KK Women's and Children's Hospital evaluates a wireless thermometer against ear and axillary temperatures in children

Journal of Pediatric Nursing, article (extract), June 2010:

This study evaluated the ThermoSENSOR against ear temperatures (ETs) measured by a Braun ThermoScan ear thermometer and axillary temperatures (ATs) measured by a Terumo digital clinical thermometer. The test participants consisted of 109 children aged 6 months to 16 years from a pediatric ward. ... These results suggest that the TTs were comparable to the ETs and ATs.

Source:
Ng K-G, Wong ST, Lim SM, Goh Z. Evaluation of the Cadi ThermoSENSOR wireless skin-contact thermometer against ear and axillary temperatures in children. Journal of Pediatric Nursing 2010; 25(3):176–86.

To view the abstract of the article, please visit the following link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20430278