WaveMark introduces new RFID smart cabinets for hospitals

WaveMark, Inc., a leading provider of real-time inventory management (RTIM) solutions for high value medical products, today announced several new RFID smart cabinet styles to store and track a wider variety of critical supplies used in specialty departments. The increased variety of RFID storage units for the real-time tracking of medical supplies is enabling hospitals to improve cost containment, patient safety, and regulatory compliance.

“As a direct result of customer demand, we’ve added numerous smart cabinet styles to store and track a greater variety of products used in hospital specialty departments”

New RFID-enabled smart cabinet styles include a 5-shelf cabinet with locking doors, a wireless mobile cabinet for easy transport from storage to procedure room, and a tabletop cabinet for tracking smaller inventories. WaveMark users in Cath Labs, Operating Rooms, and Surgical Centers are benefitting from the increased choices for storing and tracking medical devices and other frequently used items such as guidewires and catheters.

“As a direct result of customer demand, we’ve added numerous smart cabinet styles to store and track a greater variety of products used in hospital specialty departments,” said John Wass, CEO, WaveMark, Inc. “The accuracy and access of information captured by WaveMark’s RFID cabinets is recognized by hospital administrators as a driving force of reduced costs and improved care. These new cabinet styles are in direct response to their requests to track a specific array of products, not easily stored in our current RFID storage configurations.”

The locking door cabinet ensures the security of high cost supplies. Items in the locking cabinet can be accessed via an RFID fob or PIN that identifies the individual who accessed the product. This smart cabinet is ideally suited for high-value products, such as implantable cardiac defibrillators or pacemakers, and to store products in areas where higher security is necessary. The mobile, wireless cabinet allows the easy transport of items from storage areas to procedure rooms while maintaining real-time read reliability over a 12-hour battery-life. The tabletop cabinet is used to track inventory in small places or smaller inventories such as heart valves.