Spend Less Time Checking Consumable Inventory & Find and Recover Lost Items Easily
- By Super Admin
- Published 12/15/2009

When Cath Lab operating costs are rising, careful management of all expenses is vital to any hospitals long term survival.
With a substantial inventory of stents, CRM devices and other consumables, your Cath Lab inventory is often prone to theft, loss, hoarding, stock-outs, maintenance slips and even improper usage.
Spending less time manually checking the inventory will free up time for your staff.
Find a proven system for control that can be implemented without changing the general operation of your your Lab and you will see improvements.
Most inventory systems work like a library. Items are checked out and then checked back in if not used. Typically, when staff know the inventory is being tracked, they are more accountable.
Sometimes consumables are not returned to inventory because it may be time consuming to manually log all that information.
Using Barcode and radio-frequency (RFID) tags to identify each item properly provides a universal system to all supplies stored within the Lab. It will speed recording time of the inventory used for each procedure and free your staff to concentrate on patient care.
Each RFID label can be read by a scanner. Its a device similar to what you see used in a supermarket when an item is scanned to find the price. The scanner can read what is being used when it is taken from an existing storage cabinet within the Cath lab.
Because Cath Labs are housed in a lead lined room, it acts like one large storage cabinet. By utilizing WI-Fi readers at each corner within the Lab, the data is transmitted to the software to include all items in the room.
You can easily find and recover a misplaced item by passing the scanner over all inventory within the Cath Lab.
Each item used for a particular procedure can be identified by the short range tag reader and transmitted to the software.
The Wyze-Scan system is simple, accurate, and speeds inventory control. It takes human error out of the equation by providing a fool proof method of inventory control.