Healthcare is a complex market that encompasses a wide range of potential RAIN applications, such as the management of healthcare facility assets and supplies, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, biologic and laboratory samples, and more.
Responsible for:
- Receiving information and providing inputs on the work being done through the workgroups.
- Participating in consultations.
- Sharing information about healthcare–related topics.
- Promoting RAIN Alliance content and messages linked to healthcare.
- Suggesting new WG activities.
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Healthcare Community Vision
All pharma products, medical devices, critical healthcare supplies and logistics units are RAIN enabled, providing benefits to key players and stakeholders across the value chain and improving patient care and safety.
Healthcare Community Mission
Educate Healthcare industry stakeholders on the benefits of RAIN. Facilitate the adoption, and scaling, of RAIN in Healthcare by promoting open interoperable numbering, and driving tagged item performance grading. Associate RAIN with improved patient care and safety. (The patient is the ultimate stakeholder in the healthcare supply chain)
WORKGROUPS
The Healthcare Workgroups are focused on accelerating the growth and adoption of RAIN RFID in the healthcare market. The use of RAIN RFID will help improve the quality of patient care by enabling healthcare providers to identify, locate, authenticate, and engage with people and things.
Numbering for RAIN in Healthcare Workgroup
Leader: Chris Brown
Participants: RAIN Alliance members committed to producing specific deliverables
Level of dedication (measured in working hours): low (from 1hr to 2hrs /week until deliverables are complete)
Meeting cadence: As required
Responsible for: Maintaining a document describing the GS1 options, and alternatives, for numbering RAIN tagged items in healthcare.
Website Improvement/Maintenance Workgroup
Leader: Paul Elizondo
Participants: RAIN Alliance members committed to producing specific deliverables
Level of dedication (measured in working hours): medium (from 2hr to 4hrs /ongoing)
Meeting cadence: As required
Responsible for: Defining content for the RAIN Healthcare web pages that promote the RAIN Alliance Pillars
Webinar Management and Masterclass Creation Workgroup
Leader: Paul Elizondo
Participants: RAIN Alliance members committed to producing specific deliverables
Level of dedication (measured in working hours): medium (from 2hr to 4hrs /ongoing)
Meeting cadence: Monthly
Responsible for: Defining and managing webinars and masterclass
Resources for RAIN RFID in Healthcare
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RAIN in Healthcare Webinar
Types: Videos/Webinars
Categories: Healthcare
Date: July 22, 2024
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Temperature and Humidity Wireless Probes for Smart. . .
Types: Blog
Categories: Healthcare
Date: April 18, 2024
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Enhancing Patient Safety and Efficiency in Healthcare with. . .
Types: Blog
Categories: Healthcare, Pharmaceutical
Date: December 8, 2023
If you are interested in knowing more about the Healthcare Community, please contact Operations: [email protected].