上海究通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Supply Chain Management 2013 established the objectives and guiding principles of medical error reduction.FDA (The United States Food and Drug Administration)released the code rules on February 25,2004,asked drug makers,repackaging and labelers to past the bar code on inner packing in most prescription drugs,which will contain the product of national drug code(NDC)number.FDA forecast that the rule will reduce 500,000 medical errors in the next 20 years. How does RFID Solve the Problem When a patient goes to the hospital,he will receive a wristband which is made of RFID technique.It contains the information of a patient,for example,name,age, blood type,medical history,bed Number,drug sensitive to(过敏原)，when he need to get an injection,the amount of the injection and so on. (RFID) ((RFID》 RFID) Figure 3 RFID Wristband Before drug using,nurse can check whether patient and medicine are matching by scanning wristband and medicine code.If they are matching and the time amount are right,then the patient takes the medicine.A study in the United States Veterans Administration found,this method will reduce 86.2%of medical errors. Hospital can put signal reception and transmission equipment in the room,hall or other areas forming a network.When a patient walks around the equipment can get his immediate position,status and transmit the information through the network, then,doctors will read it out in the control software and provide better medical care. Page 3 Total 4Supply Chain Management 2013 Page 3 Total 4 established the objectives and guiding principles of medical error reduction. FDA (The United States Food and Drug Administration) released the code rules on February 25, 2004, asked drug makers, repackaging and labelers to past the bar code on inner packing in most prescription drugs, which will contain the product of national drug code (NDC) number. FDA forecast that the rule will reduce 500,000 medical errors in the next 20 years. How does RFID Solve the Problem When a patient goes to the hospital, he will receive a wristband which is made of RFID technique. It contains the information of a patient, for example, name, age, blood type, medical history, bed Number, drug sensitive to(过敏原), when he need to get an injection, the amount of the injection and so on. Figure 3 RFID Wristband Before drug using, nurse can check whether patient and medicine are matching by scanning wristband and medicine code. If they are matching and the time 、 amount are right, then the patient takes the medicine. A study in the United States Veterans Administration found, this method will reduce 86.2% of medical errors. Hospital can put signal reception and transmission equipment in the room, hall or other areas forming a network. When a patient walks around the equipment can get his immediate position, status and transmit the information through the network, then, doctors will read it out in the control software and provide better medical care