cited patient safety as the No. 1 reason for interest in the technology (Murphy).

Survey showed that patient safety and medical error reduction are top priorities for hospitals (Murphy). During the past decade, patient safety and high- uality patient care have increasingly !ecome the focus for healthcare organi"ations across the country. Safety is an area of great concern for consumers and health care providers. #echnology is a strategy to enhance patient safety. $%&D can help reduce three potential pro!lem that can occur in our surgical unit such as misidentification, foreign retain and inventory misplacement. 'eading-edge hospitals are using $%&D to tag surgical sponges, scalpels and other surgical e uipment to reduce medical errors and potential law suits. Most of our patient are from outpatient surgery sees a !usiness (pportunity in the growing num!er of surgeries and our hospital could loss mar)et share in our surgical services, if we do not pull even with our competitors and enhance patient care. 'osing mar)et will !e very hurtful considering that 1.* million of our dollars come from our outpatient surgical units.

How will RFID be implemented/used/incorporated? $%&D can have profound impact and !enefits for our surgical units when the right resources are tagged. $%&D applications are for identifying patient, tagging surgical e uipment, and managing inventory. #hese applications of $%&D will help eliminate potential pro!lem in our surgical department and provide (+ospital $%&D applications) provide the following significant !enefits. $eal-time data on assets &mproved inventory efficiency and management ,ost reduction $educe administrative !urdens on care givers Shorten patient wait times &ncrease patient safety
#hese !enefits will help enhance the overall uality of patient care in our surgical centers. #he !enefits of using $%&D in our surgical department are compelling. #o achieve these !enefits at Ministries +ospital, & propose that we choose (use $%&D to) (use rfid for one of the three) from one of the three possi!le (options) solution- .se $%&D to identify patient, .se $%&D to tag surgical e uipment, or (and).se $%&D to manage inventory

#he $%&D wrist!and also reduces misidentification of patients and allows for more accuracy. #he $%&D system reduces the time nurses spend entering data a!out the patient, leaving them more time to provide care. /efore surgery !egins, surgical staff can read $%&D tags 0m!edded in wrist!and with handheld readers to confirm the right patient and procedure.