RFID for Patient TRacking Blaze Automation 2010

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• Real Time Tracking of Aarogyasri Patients

-- Improved Clinical Care Quality -- Increased
Efficiency and Patient Throughput -- Improved
Billing Consistency for care Provided
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Introduction

• Aarogyasri is a unique health insurance scheme
  being implemented by Government of Andhra Pradesh
  (GoAP) to assist the BPL families to meet the
  catastrophic health needs.
• This is a public private partnership promoted
  between the Insurance Company, the private sector
  hospitals and the State agencies.
• In 2009 - 2010, around 3,50,000 patients got
  benefited out of this scheme.

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Process Flow of the Beneficiary Treatment in the
Network Hospital
Step 1Beneficiaries approach nearby PHC/Area
Hospitals/District Hospital/Network Hospital.
Aarogyamithras placed in the above hospitals
facilitate the beneficiary. If beneficiary visits
any other PHC/Government hospital other than the
Network Hospital, he/she will be given a referral
card to the Network Hospital after preliminary
diagnosis by the doctors. The Beneficiary may
also attend the Health Camps being conducted by
the Network Hospital in the Villages and can get
the referral card based on the diagnosis. Step
2The Aarogyamithras at the Network Hospital
examines the referral card and health card/BPL
ration card and facilitates the beneficiary to
undergo preliminary diagnosis and basic tests.
Step 3The Network Hospital, based on the
diagnosis, admits the patient and sends
preauthorization request to the Insurance company
and the Aarogyasri Health Care Trust.
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Process Flow of the Beneficiary Treatment in the
Network Hospital (continued)
Step 4Specialists of the Insurance Company and
the Trust examine the preauthorization request
and approve preauthorization if all the
conditions are satisfied within 12 working hours.
Step 5The Network Hospital extends cashless
treatment and surgery/therapy to the beneficiary.
Step 6Network Hospital after performing the
surgery/therapy forwards the original bills,
diagnostic reports, case sheet, and satisfactory
letter from patient, discharge summary duly
signed by the patient and other relevant
documents to Insurance Company for settlement of
the claim. Step 7Insurance Company scrutinizes
the bills and gives approval for the sanction of
the bill and shall make the payment within agreed
period
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Drawbacks of the Existing System and solution to
improvise the same

• Lack of Patient Tracking from the time of
  Enrolment till the Discharge
• Possibilities for Duplication of Patients and
  there is lot of scope for such
• other malpractices
• Completely Manual System with no proper Real
  time auditing
• and many more of this kind

Consequences

• Increased Burden on the Government
• Decrease in the number of Beneficiaries

Proposed Solution
Introduction of Automation for Real Time Patient
Tracking in the Designated Hospitals through the
Central Monitoring Facility.
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What is Real Time Patient Tracking ?
Real Time Patient Tracking is a subset of
Context-Aware Healthcare Solution where the
Patient movement is tracked and Recorded for the
entire treatment cycle for improved Customer
Satisfaction and Enhanced Resource utilization in
a typical hospital environment
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Real Time Patient Tracking - Overview
Active RFID TAG
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Real Time Patient Tracking - Components involved
Standalone Application Software
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Active RFID TAG (Wrist Band Type) Features

• This active wristband RFID tag operates at the
  frequency of 2.45GHz ISM.
• Its output power is 0dBm, the read ranges from 0
  to 100m.
• It alerts the authorities when the strap is
  tampered.
• Encapsulated within a soft, durable and
  waterproof housing, the tag is very comfortable
  to wear.
• In addition, this wristband RFID tag features
  low power consumption and long battery life more
• than 4 years.

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Real Time Patient Tracking Infrastructure in
Hospital
Localization/ Patient Location detection
Real Time Tracking
Wireless Receiver
Tagged Patient
Tagged Patient
RTLS Engine along with Standalone Application
software
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Real Time Patient Tracking Application software
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Real Time Patient Tracking Proposed Layout for
Aarogyasri Project (overview)
This server is Located at a Central location
where the entire patient Tracking can be done in
Real Time.
WAN / LAN/GSM/GPRS
Server For Real Time Patient Tracking for all
the hospitals.
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Real Time Patient Tracking Benefits

• Increased Efficiency and Patient Throughput.
• Improved billing consistency for care provided.
• Monitoring the Staff Allocation for individual
  patients is possible in Real Time.
• Enhanced Billing and Record Keeping.
• Customer Satisfaction Responsiveness, Lower
  Wait times.

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Implementation Financials

• Very Affordable
• Requires very less additional Infrastructure
• Does not harm the operation of any Equipment in
  the Hospital environment.
• Patient Friendly system
• Can operate even under power failure through
  battery backup.

Blaze Automation is willing to take up this
project for a period of 5 years on BOOT (Built,
Own, Operate and Transfer) basis by charging 2
of the amount spent on Each patient as service
fee.
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Thank youSridhar Ponugupati ceo_at_blazeautomation.
com Tel [phone]