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Gaining Deeper Insights into RFID Adoption in Hospital Pharmacies
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Romero, Alejandro Lefebvre, Élisabeth |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | RFID holds the potential to fulfill more completely what is known as the five rights of medication management (right medication, right dose, right time, right route and right patient) and strengthens the security of patients. By automatically tracking and tracing in real-time medicines and doses, RFID also improves the pharmacy efficiency and accuracy, increases inventory visibility, reduces inventory costs, ameliorates the readiness of purchase orders, decreases supply cycle times and reduces manual labour. Moreover, it supports reverse logistics activities. Despite these alleged benefits, RFID adoption in hospital pharmacies is slow and remains under investigated in previous research. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to seek further explanations in the rate of RFID adoption in the specific context of the hospital pharmacy; second, to identify and analyze the critical factors that foster or hamper such adoption. The empirical evidence gathered from a field research conducted in six hospitals, shows that nine factors emerge as most critical. The paper adds elements of explanation for the slow rate of RFID adoption and underlines the overriding issues related such adoption. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.wjsspapers.com/static/documents/May/2013/14.%20Alejandro-FINAL.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
