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RFID Revolutionizes Surgical Efficiency

24 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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RFID tracking of surgical instruments cuts tray size by 78% and saves hospitals 2,300 operating-room hours annually across ten ORs. A pilot with orthopedic hip and knee surgeries showed the technology eliminates instrument counting delays and lets hospitals schedule more procedures without building new operating rooms.

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know what's going into the OR and know that it's correct every time allows procedures to start on time. And then postoperatively in the OR, if you are counting instruments, we count them live, real time, it reduces your term, your room turnover time. In our pilot hospital where we did a 6-month pilot with an orthopedic surgeon focused on their hip and knee trays, we reduced the tray by 78% and we calculated on an annual basis, they have 10 ORs, we calculated on an annual basis that we would save them about 2,300 hours in a year, which would be the equivalent of adding another OR. So it's not just time savings and efficiency, but it's also the ability to add on extra procedures.