Training Solutions

Fast Track Technologies, Ltd. 2151 N. Neva Ave. Chicago IL, 60707

Phone 773-398-6605 Fax 001-773-889-8002

Email: brad@fasttrackrfid.com

"We make technology easy to live with"

Fast Track Technologies, Ltd

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Healthcare Training Program

-Industry Lecture - General

-Strategic and Practical RFID Applications in Hospitals
     Drivers
     Trends
     Attitudes
     Training

-Global Healthcare Market

-How to obtain Funding for RFID Project

-Market Banking

- Practical Case Study

-Business Case
     RFID impacts a wide variety of processes throughout the healthcare
     supply chain, and advanced planning and cross-organizational
     coordination are critical to any implementation. Assess the business case for RFID

-Implementation strategy

-ROI
    How to leverage implementation costs and maximize ROI
    How to justify RFID investments
    How hospitals calculate their return on investment with RFID technology
    Actual cost/benefit analysis of RFID technologies; both financial and quality of care
    The costs and benefits of utilizing RFID as an enabling technology for these Applications
    How a major health care provider achieved fast ROI through equipment tracking
    Generate a proper ROI for an RFID system

-Track and Trace Medical Devices and Pharma

- Low cost of Ownership and Chain of Custody: Authentication and Tracking
     Serialization for authentication and pedigree tracking in the supply chain.
     Products to be tracked
     Serialization needs to be carefully planned and executed
     Case studies of Pharma manufacturers plan to serialize their products, and how wholesalers plan to      authenticate and track those serialized cases and item-level products.

- Medical device manufacturers
    Have significant challenges in tracking and monitoring the supply chain. Owing to high product costs     and the need to maintain high inventory at the point of consumption, manufacturers need to own the     inventory in hospitals until it is actually consumed. We demonstrate how to use RFID to track and     utilize inventory across distributors and hospitals and ensure lower levels of product obsolescence.

-RFID's Role in Reducing Surgical Errors
    How much is spent in correcting medical errors.
    How to boost patient safety standards and reduce surgical site infection errors
    Reduce in-patient stays and capital expenditures
    Manage hospital assets and increase hospital security

-Pitfalls

-Wi-Fi-Based RFID: Healthcare Asset Tracking

-Regulations & Mandates
    How to develop a comprehensive requirements matrix to comply with multiple mandates
    FDA
         Creating a compliance report that describes how to implement RFID for key customers
   Pedigree: Regulatory and Industry Response to Government Mandates and the Threat of Counterfeit    Drugs
   How to prepare for the expansion of Pharma pedigree in Florida in July 2006, and in California in    January 2007.
   How to contend with pedigree regulatory requirements at the state and federal level

-AN.UCC (GS1) Standard Data Structures in Healthcare: From GTIN to GLN
    UCCnet data pool services, the GS1 Global Registry™, and the Global Data Synchronization Network     (GDSN). Learn what data synchronization is, how it works, its expected impact on the supply chain,
     and what it all means to you.

    Use of the EAN.UCC (GS1) standard data structures, from the GTIN marked on every item in     pharmaceutical to the GLN (Global Location Number) used to identify every healthcare facility in the     United States.

     o Data structures and how to avoid mistakes
     o GTIN: What it is and how to encode an NDC
     o GLN: what it is and how to use it for maximum benefit

Facilitating the Safe and Secure Supply Chain: The Role of the Electronic Product Code: Utilizing RFID/EPC in Healthcare.

Specialized application of RFID and EPC in the healthcare environment and the regulatory implications that drive the healthcare industry to deploy RFID.

    What are FDA and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's (JCAHO) viewpoints      on RFID.
        o The future of commercialization and industry momentum of RFID in healthcare and life sciences
        o The benefits of RFID usage to the hospital and healthcare provider

-Data Mining Middleware
     Navigating and Understanding of intergration Standards, Data Synchronization and Data Structures
     Calculating total cost of ownership; infrastructure requirements and demands; user feedback design      decisions; required software capabilities; and physical implementation limitations.

     RFID implementations for tracking medical supplies and patient drug delivery, detailing how the      technology improves inventory management, supply chain efficiency, and patient safety.

     One area for internal value creation is the ability to interpret RFID events in real time and trigger      business decisions.
       o How to navigate and understand standards and data structures
       o Integration challenges to current workflow processes and IT systems

-Implementation & RFID Systems Integration
RFID technology is being deployed in healthcare environments to improve workflow improvement, equipment management, instrument tracking, medication safety, and patient safety solutions.
There are solutions in healthcare provider settings to optimize asset utilization, reduce operating costs, and enhance the quality of patient care.

-Lab Work
    o The benefits/drawbacks of various existing options in the market for health care asset tracking:
        RTLS (Real-Time Location Systems),
        Wi-Fi
      Active RFID
        Passive RFID
        SAW Technology

      o How to optimize
           Tags, readers and antennas to deliver data.
           Build and test an RFID lab incorporating all of these elements in one seamless system.
           Beyond the data collection challenges, impacts to existing production and handling processes must            also be resolved.

        o Examine interoperability issues at the physical layer
        o Multi-frequency environments
        o High-density item-level reads
        o Difficult product characteristics
        o Extensive data capture and association compliance mandates
        o Examine approaches to conducting EPC and pedigree-compliant RFID solutions

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